Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cultural clamor. Feelings were heightened by the action of the divorced wife of Painter Andre Derain, who, suing for her share of the "community of goods," had sequestered Derain's studio and denied him access to a painting he was still working on. As sometimes happens in France, popular feeling outweighed the rigidities of law. Last week a court of appeal in Orleans reversed the decision of the Court of Cassation, handed down a final verdict awarding Bonnard's property to his own heirs...
Like most of the Chancellor's defenses of his title, this one was calculated to have other effects too. It gave the Christian Democrats, who can now count only a scant six-vote majority in the July electoral-college balloting, a presidential nominee able and popular enough to match the opposition Social Democrats' popular and widely known candidate, Bundestag Vice President Carlo Schmid. It also appeased Ruhr industrialists, who, because industrial production tumbled 8% in January-the sharpest drop in seven years-and because 14 million tons of unsold coal are piled up around Rhineland pits, long...
...Pakistan the constitution is gone, the Parliament dissolved, the country's first elections indefinitely postponed. But not since the days of Founding Father Mohammed Ali Jinnah has Pakistan had so popular a government. "On the day De-fore the revolution last October," said a now jobless politician, "I thought one of the most dangerous things you can do is to break a constitution, even if it is to stop evil. On the day after, I thought: 'Thank God someone had the courage.'" Says beefy, Sandhurst-trained General Mohammed Ayub Khan, Pakistan's military dictator and president...
...issue of local independence has played a very large part in creating the present corruption and lack of popular control. From its very first days, the locals of the union have fought every effort of the central leadership to consolidate control under one governing body...
...socialist mold had sent private capital into flight, and threatened to make Syria's hard pound almost as soft as Egypt's. It had been a disastrous year for Syria's wheat and barley crops. But Gamal Abdel Nasser himself seemed still to be the most popular man in the country. To make the new republic's first anniversary memorable, Nasser planned the first formal distribution of 155,000 acres of land to the peasants...