Word: popular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Martin has enjoyed an incredible success on television. Martin, one of the most popular guest hosts on the Tonight Show, recently broke from the traditional routine of walking on to the stage to deliver his monologue. Instead, he drove out in a small sports car, raced across the stage to say hello to that night's stand-in for Ed McMahon and then drove back across the stage to greet the band...
...United States, now once again in circulation to sell his new book. Seidman describes Burchett as a war correspondent better able to understand the Vietnam War than American reporters because of his intimacy with Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Cong, and as a life-long supporter of popular revolutions around the world...
...times, Grasshoppers and Elephants is hard reading, as when Burchett goes into long accounts of Vietnamese troop movements, which require at least a basic understanding of military strategy. But most of the book is for popular consumption, so the technical details are played down. Instead, Burchett emphasizes the role the Vietnamese people played in supporting the guerrilla troops, the popular uprisings, the lies to Saigon authorities. Villages developed their own home-made weapons, like the two-meter catapult made of ordinary rubber bands that could silently toss grenades into a nearby fort...
Frisoli plans to drum up backing for his policies by going on speaking tours of East Cambridge, the hub of his popular support...
Supporters of the fundamental school, which attracts over 400 students and has become increasingly popular over the past few years, want to refurbish an abandoned elementary school which formerly housed the Russell Elementary School...