Word: populars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Doty attacked the "popular notion" that the Russian challenge exists only in science and material progress. "While watching our comparative production curves," he noted, "we tend to overlook certain problems in education, for instance." A million Russians speak English, he said, and a "dynamic concern for learning English penetrates much of the society...
...becomes more and more apparent in Athens that U.S. policy will be based on "expedients," popular disillusionment with America is mounting. Three years ago there was no anti-Americanism in Greece; now there is a good deal. Eventually this kind of feeling may become strong enough to topple the pro-Western government there, and to propel Greece right out of NATO. Even a Communist government is not entirely beyond the bounds of possibility, if the Cyprus controversy becomes sufficiently acrid...
Since the retirement of Professor Merk in 1957, Harvard has been without a course in the history of the Westward Movement. Professor Merk's course on the subject was one of the more popular in the University despite the difficulty of the exams and the T, Th, S, 9 A.M. meeting...
...little darlings snarls. "He's got the law on his side." Another muses with a sinister smirk: "He ain't gonna like it." And so the story swiftly develops into yet another clumsy, commercial switch on what is probably the most popular comedy situation in contemporary U.S. humor: the problems of bringing up father...
...capable woman and several ever-so-knowing children to pick up the pieces. At first, of course, there isn't any woman, but the children soon ignore their father into hiring a maid (Sophia Loren) who is just what the scriptwriter ordered. She wiggles around, sings peculiar popular songs ("Presto, presto, do your very best, oh"), boils an egg-obviously, to the children, a normal American homemaker...