Word: popularly
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...South; during that time, they have suffered an estimated 150,000 to 200,000 battle deaths. Yet the Hanoi regime does not inform parents and wives of the fate of their dead sons and husbands. Possibly Hanoi's silence on the subject indicates that the government fears popular reaction to the big losses. On the other hand, the regime's behavior may simply indicate that it does not have to take public opinion into consideration...
...other side of the casualty ledger, some North Vietnamese may be skeptical of their government's war reports, which continually boast of inflicting outsized losses on the enemy. A letter, signed by "Many Readers," appeared in the March issue of Popular Current Events, a party periodical, asking: "If, since the war began, we have annihilated 1,500,000 of the enemy, including 500,000 Americans, why does the enemy still have more than 1,000,000 troops in South Viet Nam?" The editor's reply was strictly party-line-that the U.S. is a huge industrial country that...
...situation is somewhat different in lacrosse. Ince has been playing that sport for several years since it is very popular of Long Island. He's the feeder for the Crimson. He usually circulates behind the net and passes out to teammates in a position to shoot. For this reason, Ince led the league in assists this year with 13. Webster and Johnsen get most of their points on goals, rather than assists. Ince has some good help, of course. He can pass to, among others, Phil Zuckerman and Bruce Regan, who ranked sixth and eighth in Ivy scoring. But even...
Watson would not say how many freshmen had applied to each of the Houses. "That is strictly confidential information," he said. "We are trying to avoid this sense of 'popular' and 'unpopular' Houses...
When the Dovells created the Bristol Stomp in the late fifties, they probably never anticipated the rapidity with which it was to vanish from the popular scene. Likewise, those who started the freshman intramural program at Harvard were probably of the opinion that it would last forever and ever. But if the participation continues to grow at its present negative rate, soon there will be no organized program of intramurals for first-year students...