Word: popularizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They represented a diversified opposition forming among groups that separately had long supported Franco: the Monarchists, the right wing of the Falange Party, the church and the army. Faced with the country's growing popular discontent and exhausted, inflated economy, they were trying to pressure the Caudillo into staving off revolution at his death by accepting a gradual evolution into a liberal constitutional monarchy with a relatively free press and an effective rather than a puppet Cortes. Most of them favored a constitutional monarchy with Don Juan or his son Juan Carlos on the throne as figurehead and real...
...Extra "R." In Round 18, popular Fred Souk, 13, who had flown all the way from the Azores, where his father works, threw an extra "r" into fanfaronade, and only five spellers were left. Then the only remaining male, Ken Finkel of Atlanta, left one "l" out of favillous. Sandra Owen was unshakable on sequela. Mary Gilliland of Fort Worth hesitated on butyraceous but managed to get by, and redheaded Dana Bennett, 13, of Denver, tossed off ovoviviparous as if it were cat. Poor Jolitta Schlehuber of Topeka, however, substituted an "s" for a "c" in racemiform. And so there...
...lecturer could. Yet the idea is an important one, and something could probably be done to relieve the sense of frantic pressure a freshman feels when handed a Humanities 3 or Social Sciences 5 reading list. Each of these courses is taught well, generally, and they are popular with students, but much of the time spent in sections is devoted to explaining the books which were hastily read if read...
...nation's chief philanthropoid, he has the delicate task of keeping the world's biggest foundation both bold and cautious, risky but responsible, of being himself the Pioneer in the Grey Flannel Suit. It is the duty of a foundation, he once said, to "pioneer ahead of popular opinion." Then he added characteristically: "To be ahead -but not too far ahead...
Britain's good grey BBC, stiffly challenged by commercial TV, has been denying for months that it plans to cater to anything so vulgar as popular taste. Its critics have seen the taint of the common touch in the BBC's decision to accent TV while lopping two hours daily off the five-hour highbrow Third Program. But last week they could take heart in a new appointment. As chairman of its board of governors with complete control over all radio and TV programs, the BBC named Rugby Headmaster Sir Arthur fforde, 56, who does...