Word: popularizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diabolic" plots afoot, "strikes, riots, then real violence culminating in assassination of whites and Africans." In the end, Armitage, who himself expressed no such fears, transmitted them to London, proclaimed an emergency in Nyasaland, began mass arrests, and banned the African National Congress, which he conceded was the most popular political movement in a land where there are 3,000,000 blacks and only 8,000 whites. These fateful steps were taken after a week of jitteriness (TIME, March 9) in which men lost their lives-but not one of them was white...
...thing happened to a British M.P. After a white-lipped debate, Labor lost, 237 to 293, partly because the Speaker ruled that an M.P. does not carry parliamentary privilege about with him, as a Foreign Office man does his diplomatic immunity. But if Stonehouse himself was not particularly popular on either side of the House, the temper of the mother of parliaments showed during the debate that it was very worried about the direction one of its children, the Central Africa Federation, is taking...
Despite Ben-Gurion's personal popularity, people were beginning to grumble, and last week they could be heard. The occasion was the election of a new Speaker of the Knesset (Parliament). First indication of trouble to Ben-Gurion's ruling Mapai (Labor) Party was the refusal of popular ex-Premier Moshe Sharett to make the race. Mapai put up a second-string candidate instead. He was beaten. The strong right-wing Herut Party ganged up with minor leftist parties in Ben-Gurion's own coalition to elect 75-year-old Nahum Nir, onetime head of the Polish...
...coliseum trials" were the first sign that the new leader's zeal might have exceeded the bounds of necessity. On his own initiative, Castro called these "showcase" tribunals into action--and while popular pressure may have demanded the executions which preceded and followed them, the only excuse for the trials themselves was to make an international case for the executions. The most significant result was to increase the frenzy of a citizenry already enraged by the memory of past horrors...
...started out with 200 birds. Now his output has grown to 1,000,000 a year. The broiler king of England, he has one packing plant, plans another to process his chickens and those of his imitators. The broiler is fast becoming as cheap and popular in England as in the U.S. Thus the new methods of mechanization and automation developed by the U.S. farmer can show the world how to solve the food shortages brought on by the explosion in population. In the next decade, the most important U.S. export may well be the lessons that Farmer North...