Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Admiral Mitscher ordered an entire fleet to turn on its lights. The lives of 100,000 men were risked to let some 200 pilots see their way home. In Viet Nam, 50 planes suspended their air war for eight hours to try to rescue Major Jim Kasler, a popular ace who had gone down over North Viet...
...faculty members had gone over to the opposition; but a degree of order had been restored, and the college was functioning once again. As for public opinion, as opposed to campus opinion, a recent poll showed that Hayakawa is now second only to Ronald Reagan as the most popular man in California-and a hot prospect for the U.S. Senate race next year...
...even tighter, and 12% interest rates could become the rule. But Senate Democrats are holding the surtax as hostage, vowing that they will not vote for it unless it is combined with long-overdue tax reforms. They sense a taxpayers' revolt and know that reform has become politically popular. Tax reform is necessary, said Chairman Russell Long of the Senate Finance Committee. But extension of the surtax, he added, should be passed "before the summer recess. To mire the surtax in endless controversy over reform, said Long, would add another explosive element of uncertainty to the economy...
...pressure to perform well in business looms ever larger as a reason why the life expectancy of males in the U.S. is only 66.7 years-five years less than in Sweden, and appreciably less than in such countries as Japan, Czechoslovakia and Israel. Contrary to popular belief, the U.S. ranks low in longevity-24th among countries that keep statistics. The male life expectancy rate has not risen significantly in the U.S. since the 1940s...
...same tendencies prevent these movements from being popular. The degree of social consciousness of any of their films depends entirely on the sensibility of the director. The film is his personal work; he is responsible to nobody. So much for socialist realism in the New Eastern European Cinema, although sweeping indictments based on what's shown in this country are probably unfair...