Word: popularizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...province-by-province tallies. The Liberals held their own in the impoverished prov inces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland. In Quebec, Trudeau easily recaptured his home riding (district) in Montreal, and the Liberals won a smashing victory. A stunning 61.9% of the popular vote and 67 of the province's 75 parliamentary seats fell into Liberal hands...
There were these two American pilots from Houston-that much seems certain. One was William Spradley, a quiet, popular bachelor normally employed as an engine driver with the fire department. The other was Roy McLemore, fiftyish, short, fat and a sometime singer of country music. On April 29 they got into a twin-engine plane at a small airport near Miami and headed south. So far, so good...
With one hand lifting up the falling sky, with the other holding up a glinting scimitar, by one lightning stroke he shakes the whole earth." Thus, in language that might have made Mao Tse-tung blush, does one popular song in North Korea stress the godlike omnipotence of President Kim II Sung, 67. As shrewd and tough as he is vainglorious, Kim since 1948 has been the dictator of a belligerent, doctrinaire state that for sheer xenophobia is rivaled only by Albania inside the Communist world. In pursuit of his goal of reuniting the Korean peninsula under his rule...
...This country eats up elites for breakfast," he explains. "Yet it's necessary to preserve some kind of quality-quality of education, of birth, of leadership, whatever," An early and tough critic of the Carter Administration, Kraft is not universally popular, but is must reading in Washington. He uses a priceless list of elite sources to compile his thrice-weekly column (syndicated by Field Enterprises to 250 newspapers) and frequent magazine articles (usually for The New Yorker). Kraft writes from a comfortable study in his Georgetown home, but he travels so incessantly that his office is more often some...
...election preserved a constitution that left in white hands the civil service, police, army, and judiciary. But it was the election of a popular black (who showed impressive popular support) as top man all the same. There is adistinct possibility that the Bishop may try to change the constitution--it would take impressive political skill, but with the support of the United States and Britain it is closer to reality...