Word: popularizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sense George Humphrey cannot see what the Humphrey flap is all about. He had nothing specific in mind but a low budget figure, even though he would shed no tears if such items as foreign economic aid and aid to education were cut. If he has stirred up popular misgivings about the budget that haunt every Congressman, he cannot believe that this is a disservice-and many would agree with him in principle. But the disservice haunts those fellow members of the Administration who believe that the budget is the minimum price for providing the services that an expanding...
...still the Istiqlal, a party whose leadership is largely intellectual, membership mostly trade unionist. But one of Mohammed's problems is how to balance its laicist modernists against the conservative religionists of the medinas and the rural areas. Chief of the Istiqlal, and probably the most popular man in Morocco after the Sultan himself, is Allal el Fassi, a fire-breathing orator who spent nine years in exile, mostly in Cairo...
...marched, waking and sleeping as they had done. His great purple passages describing the storm or sunshine that had attended great events were not Bellocian inventions. Weather and walking were his passions, and it is no accident that they are at the heart of two of his most popular books, The Path to Rome and The Four...
Those ultra-sophisticated persons who believe that no art which gains popular favor can be good can have as bad an effect as those who think that popular opinion should be the only judge, he added...
...roses embraces a 2,300-acre home-base nursery at Newark. N.Y., 1,000-acre and 1, 900-acre rose fields in California and Arizona, plus smaller nurseries in New Jersey and Indiana. Sales this year are headed toward $9,700,000. mostly of roses (by far the most popular U.S. flower) but also including such other J. & P. specialties as delphiniums and mums. In the rose business, in which it annually grosses three times the combined sales of its three nearest rivals, J. & P. also leads its field in adapting to changing times. In 1940 it promoted floribunda roses...