Word: popularizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact that in a sport once confined to rugged men, a central figure today is a determined and independent Eastern socialite who is not a championship skier, but a man of venture capital whose enterprising push brought the 1960 Winter Olympics to the U.S. For a look at the popular sport and its sometimes unpopular man, see SPORT, Bonanza in the Wilderness...
...apartment, put him to sleep-or more properly, down on his pad. Then Ginsberg and a bearded friend hit the streets, walked till 6 a.m., talking about their mothers. It was all fried shoes. Like it means nothing. And this week they will do it all over again, by popular demand, at Columbia University in Manhattan...
...early to rise, always on the job. Trouble was that by ruthless pursuit of his own ambitions, Fanfani had made enemies. Ex-Premier Mario Scelba, whose government Fanfani tumbled by backstage maneuvering in 1955, was not inclined to forgive or forget. Formidable Giuseppe Pella, still probably the most popular Demo-Christian politician in Italy, had two grievances: Fanfani helped overturn Pella's government in 1954, dropped Pella as Foreign Minister last July...
...game in Oklahoma City. Local teen-agers showed them how to extract the amphetamine from a Valo inhaler and inject it with a hypodermic needle. (Oldfashioned ways of getting the kick by chewing the cartridge or drinking beer in which it had been swished around were no longer popular, because Pfeiffer had added a bitter, nauseating chemical.) The venturesome eight had a ball -and spread the craze back home...
...time. The only solid way to fix stix is through clix. Said Warren Caro, executive director of Theatre Guild-American Theater: "Basically, it all goes back to Broadway. The road's ups and downs reflect the strength of the New York season. If New York offers good and popular plays, the road doesn't have to worry...