Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some good. Most of the people who heard him liked his fight and his folksiness. But his restored confidence did not lift the deep gloom overhanging most of the country's Democrats. Said a California Democrat: "He's a good egg. He'll be the most popular ex-President we've ever had. But you just can't put him back there and let him yack-yack with Congress for another four years...
...half (from 78 to 33 ⅓-r.p.m.), Columbia had produced a record that would play 45 minutes, include an entire symphony or concerto on one record. Columbia had a first batch of 101 Vinylite records ready (at $4.85 for a 12-inch classical and $2.85 for a 10-inch popular record with six to eight pieces...
...ultra-nationalist Sinarquistas had spent most of their energies on religious revivalism and vague talk of a corporate state based on the Führer principle. But last week, by presenting the names of 46,270 members, they qualified as a Mexican political party under the name of Fuerza Popular (Popular Force). For the moment, they were the only other permanently registered legal political party besides the government's Partido Revolucionario Institutional (P.R.I.). Other opposition parties-the conservative Acción Nacional, Lombardo Toledano's Partido Popular, and the Communists-were trying to corral enough signatures to qualify...
...traveled through Poland and Germany and picked up some heretical ideas that soon got him in hot water at home. Sample: he wrote a poem calling for a composer who could restore the glory of Italian music, "that altar, soiled like the wall of a brothel." Verdi, the most popular composer of the day, snapped: "If I am among those who, as Boito says, have sullied the altar, let him clean it, and I shall be the first to ... light a candle in his honor...
Howdy Doody, NBC's popular cowboy puppet (TIME, April 5), had his huge audience of kids worried. Howdy had disappeared...