Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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INDIANA. As expected, popular, tobacco-chewing Democrat Henry F. Schricker, 65, who made a good record as governor from 1941 to 1945 but was barred by Indiana's constitution from a second consecutive term, defeated frosty Hobart Creighton, one of the country's biggest poultrymen but a shy campaigner...
...jubilee, these were somewhat chilly and impersonal phrases, and it was perhaps significant that of all the songs written for the occasion, one of the most popular with the Komsomoltsy themselves was a sentimental little lyric entitled Farewell, Accordion Player. It records the unhappiness of the girls in the village on learning that their town's young musician is going off to study engineering: "That means you're not returning here . . . You'll work in a factory and forget our gay song." Everyone is silent for a moment, thinking. Then the young Komsomolets replies...
Contrary to popular opinion, the plague has not been stamped out. But Dr. Robert H. Pollitzer, 63, who has spent 27 years fighting plague in China, is quite cheerful about getting it under control, even there. Said he: "There are optimists and pessimists in this plague-fighting business. I am an optimist ... It is not any more a question of looking for effective methods. It's just a case of applying them." Dr. Pollitzer, who works for U.N.'s World Health Organization, last week started work in the University of California's George Williams Hooper Foundation...
...This meant that Dewey was not getting big enough majorities anywhere to pull other Republican candidates along with him in a major sweep. It meant that the 80th Congress was getting thumbs-down from the American people. At 1 a.m. Truman was still in front. At 2 a.m. his popular majority had grown while his electoral probability had dropped. Nobody knew just how it would all come out. But it looked very much as if the tide of Republicanism had not yet completely drowned the New Deal by a long shot. And that was something to get excited about...
...Truman was more than 1,200,000 popular votes ahead of Dewey, with 16,036,000 votes to the New York governor...