Word: popularly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard intelligence, common sense and a very uncommon determination. There were no grand new visions or invocations of ancient splendor. Nixon's was an understated performance, and it was successful exactly for that reason. He went to listen to Europe's leaders, and there is no more popular conversationalist than a good listener...
...theory, this should not seriously bother the Pentagon. "Rotsee," as collegians call it, remains highly popular. It supplies 50% of the Army's officers, 20% of the Navy's and 35% of the Air Force's. Army ROTC alone now enrolls 151,000 students on 268 campuses (v. 54 for the Navy and 208 for the Air Force). Many students are so eager for ROTC that next year the Army will add 16 more campuses. A student who signs up is committed to two years' active service as a second lieutenant. One attraction: he can boost...
...there's more to the story of boxing at Harvard than T.R., who did his jabbing when boxing here was still a manly art for young aristocrats. In fact, boxing was once the second most popular spectator sport at Harvard (behind football) before being decked by a reactionary right hook in the late...
Under Lamar's guiding hand, intercollegiate boxing became successful and immensely popular at Harvard. A bout between Harvard and the U.S. Military Academy in 1936 drew an estimated 3000 enthusiasts, the largest crowd ever to attend an athletic event in the Indoor Athletic Building...
...smiles: "We don't want to discuss it," he says. Whereupon Bloomfield, apparently worried about how long his building will be apprehended, begins to explain all the work he and his people are doing to fix things up. Someone interrupts with the cry, "What about Jelpy?" (alluding to a popular lecturer who didn't get tenure). Then another person, nearer to Bloomfield, tells him that reform is no substitute for abolition. At this point the group started walking in circles, an action which resulted in their looping out of the front door of the building. Having possessed the building, they...