Word: popularizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pitch into service and charitable activities fail to get a real understanding of the communities they serve. When it comes to politics, there is less argument within the profession-a majority feel like the New Jersey editor who last week decided that the time had come to end a popular Jersey City practice whereby newsmen also serve politicians as ghost writers or pressagents. See PRESS, Should George Do It? and Speechless in Jersey...
...Nasser threw up new difficulties after Israel's withdrawal from his territory, was to crow at the U.S.: "I told you so." London papers, which used to save their sharpest digs for Dulles, have in recent weeks shifted their fire to Eisenhower (see cartoons). Once the most popular of U.S. leaders in British eyes, Eisenhower has been increasingly depicted as naive, credulous, lacking in decisiveness, and far sicker than he appears...
Like the other Houses, Dunster possesses an underground rest and play area, equipped with pool and ping pong tables, a television room, and eight squash courts. For entertainment of another type, the House offers sporadic smokers and popular dances. But its chief gift remains that of a convivial atmosphere...
Just what it is that makes a house popular is hard to determine. Sometimes it is the existence of a popular stereotype, but these are as changeable as the winds of rumor. In 1948, for example, the CRIMSON described Eliot House as "tending to cliques" and "bibulous enthusiasm," and noted that Dunster had been called a "hotbed of Spanish insurgents...
Playing with it is a pleasant little avant garde short embodying scenes from the life of London's working class, accompanied by English popular songs...