Word: popularly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stories about the demise of baseball's minor leagues have become as popular in recent years as profiles on Paul (Bear) Bryant. These stories always define the problem (in 20 years, the number of minor leagues has shrunk from 58 to 19), offer perfectly sound reasons (televising of major league games into minor league towns leads the list), then grandly conclude that nobody misses the minor leagues because even without them overall baseball attendance is higher than ever. To me, one of the thousands who hitchhiked into a Class D town as a teen-ager begging for a tryout, these...
Momentarily my spirits rose--it was the kind of feeling most of us had when Humphrey went ahead in the popular vote counts Tuesday night--but I had to ask, 'Do you check to see whether I was right...
Sedulous Brainwashing. Drama may reach for the stars, but it must be rooted in the soil of "the rough theater." This is the popular drama of crude jests, false noses, stuffed bellies and fear in a faceful of flour. It is vulgar, grotesque and obscene, and it ranges from Punch and Judy to Bertolt Brecht, who argued that the theater should be like a prize ring...
Most bankers disavow voracious intentions. They are, after all, sensitive to the popular concern that banks, with their vast resources, could grab too much control over the economy if permitted to do so. "We don't want to go into the steel business," says Chairman George S. Moore of Manhattan's First National City Bank, which recently won approval from Comptroller of the Currency William B. Camp to turn itself into a one-bank holding company...
Avoiding Disaster. The do-it-yourself adhesive labels became so popular that twelve companies, including 3M and Johnson & Johnson, quickly moved in for a share of the new market. Hurwich realized that trying to keep Dymo a one-item company would lead to disaster. As early as 1963, he started to diversify into other fields...