Word: populars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...civilization of antiquity bequeathed to the cultivators of the island's food crops. U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Gluck called on Washington for emergency help. Flocks of helicopters from the aircraft carrier Princeton dropped food that saved the lives of hundreds and, incidentally, gave the U.S. a needed boost in popular esteem...
...beard and booked Irma by the week. After an interlude on Devil's Island, Nestor returned to "Coulaincourt, where stroll the filles d'amour," to settle down in unmarried bliss with his Irma. This curdled romantic idyl furnishes the plot for Irma-la-Douce, Paris' most popular long-run musical; it is also the vehicle that launched France's newest singing star, Colette Renard, 28, a onetime Montmartre artist's model...
...proconsul in Asia": "It's too bad that the general didn't have a good political adviser. If he'd have consulted me about what he ought to do, I would have made it much easier for him, and he'd be a much more popular man than he is today...
...received any complaints from people who believe these things are disadvantages? Do you think the modern car is too big?" "No, I don't," Curtice replied, added that he is just providing the public what the public wants. "Cars have attained their present dimensions as the result of popular demand...
...popular favorite was a strange one. An aging survivor of the reactionary 1931-44 Jorge Ubico dictatorship, General Ydigoras, 62, is a hardworking, fluent spellbinder, backed by feudal landlords. Though anticlerical in the past, he casually promised to have a famed Guatemalan priest canonized by the Roman Catholic Church. M.D.N. charged that he also dropped leaflets by airplane on election day announcing that Cruz Salazar had just withdrawn from the race...