Word: populars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...model Republican may have the organized influence to win the party's nomination, but he'll get about one in one hundred of the total popular vote when election time comes...
...flock of pundits and commentators thought they found backing for their long-argued opinion that the use of the Fifth Amendment carries with it no public stigma, social, economic or otherwise. The Supreme Court, wrote New York Timesman James Reston, had spoken out "emphatically'' against the "popular tendency" of assuming that a witness "must be guilty of some wrongdoing if he invokes the Fifth Amendment." Thus it was claimed the court had rebutted President Eisenhower's recent commonsensical remark that "if a man has to go to the Fifth Amendment, there must be something he doesn...
After six months of chaos spent trying to elect a President, Haiti had found a leader with obvious popular support. The process of selection was rude: when the campaigning reached the shooting stage, other candidates backed out and pushed Fignole into office. He took hold vigorously, appointed a strong Cabinet, named a new army chief, produced pay for troops and other government employees who had gone wageless for a month. Banks, factories, docks, cable offices, radio stations reopened; peasant women hurried to the capital toting baskets of fruit and vegetables...
Fignole's popular appeal is natural. He comes from poor peasant parents, struggled for an education, discovered a hypnotic gift of speech, organized the poor blacks of Port-au-Prince and turned them against the well-off mulatto elite. Preaching a race struggle, Rabble-Rouser Fignole promised the blacks cars, houses and the mistresses of the rich. "Haiti for the black Haitians!" he cried. In more recent years he has tried to forget such anti-elite demagoguery...
...striking broadcast, not so much for the words that made headlines, but because it gave the U.S. its only firsthand, sustained view of what manner of man runs the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R. The view bore little resemblance to the popular image of the off-duty, semicomic, garrulous Khrushchev tippling his way through diplomatic receptions. This was Khrushchev during office hours, not only sober but sobering: a tough, shrewd, vigorous man with the air of confident command. In sharp contrast to China's Chou Enlai, who cautiously read his answers to selected written questions...