Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some Lebanese Christians feared that the rebels might get their way, and Premier Sami Solh, who narrowly escaped assassination earlier in the week (see below), angrily threatened to resign. Yet in the face of popular pressure for peace, and the fact that President Nasser seemed willing to settle for Chehab, the opposition probably could not keep up resistance much longer...
...Defense Ministry and made their decision: to answer the insults with a coup would cost thousands of lives. Castro León resigned. But the explosive issue is far from settled. The Communists are growing stronger by the day and will try desperately for some form of Popular Front victory in the elections. If they succeed, the military will probably start plotting in earnest. The government's failure to provide responsible, moderate leadership could lead to a bloody showdown between extremists of the left and right...
Partly because the market for good jazz singers-i.e., singers who phrase and improvise in the manner of instruments in a jazz band-is remarkably small, Ernestine has remained a critical success and a popular failure. She is inevitably compared to Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday. Ernestine invariably rejects the comparisons. "I wish," she says, "they would let me be just me." She is, and "just me" is plenty good enough...
Across the nation, network TV stations had shrugged off the summer doldrums to come alive in the Middle East crisis. They had sacrificed fat revenues from sponsored shows to cover the U.N. debates, speaker by speaker. Such popular programs as CBS's The Verdict Is Yours, NBC's Dragnet and ABC's Andy Williams Show were cut off or canceled outright. Expensive evening hours were given over to news analysis...
...tektites in each of the patches, which are hundreds or thousands of miles across, are different, and none of them have any relation to the earthly rocks near them. One popular theory holds that they are chips knocked off the moon by meteor impacts. Another argues that they are nonmetallic meteorites intercepted in loose swarms that melted into a kind of glass when they hit the atmosphere...