During the First World War, because of his family connections with both sides and the division of popular opinion, Spain remained neutral.

During the 1950s, the National Football League had grown to rival Major League Baseball as one of the most popular professional sports leagues in the United States.

During the mid-1980s, many sysops opted for the less expensive, ubiquitous Commodore 64 ( introduced in 1982 ), which became popular among software pirate groups.

During the Labor Day weekend in 1952, The Saddlemen were renamed Bill Haley with Haley's Comets ( inspired by a popular mispronunciation of Halley's Comet ), and in 1953, Haley's recording of " Crazy Man, Crazy " ( co-written by Haley and his bass player, Marshall Lytle although Lytle would not receive credit until 2001 ) became the first rock and roll song to hit the American charts, peaking at no. 15 on Billboard and no. 11 on Cash Box.

During the show's popular, although short-lived production, Bixby as always, invited a few old friends along to co-star such as Pamela Britton ( in her final role ), Kristina Holland and Ralph O ' Hara.

During World War II, street-style craps became popular among soldiers, who often played it using an Army blanket as a shooting surface.

During the fall, hunting and color tours are popular.

During Lent, capybara meat is especially popular in parts of South America, especially in Venezuela, as the Catholic Church, in a special dispensation, is claimed to have allowed eating capybara meat when meat consumption was otherwise not allowed.

During the 1840s, Lyell traveled to the United States and Canada, and wrote two popular travel-and-geology books: Travels in North America ( 1845 ) and A Second Visit to the United States ( 1849 ).

During the Renaissance, there arose a critical attitude that sharply distinguished between apostolic tradition and what George Every calls " subsidiary mythology "— popular legends surrounding saints, relics, the cross, etc .— suppressing the latter.

During this period the public response to the CCC program was overwhelmingly popular.

During this period, a number of very popular writers emerged, mostly British but with a notable subset of American writers.

During this time, " trash films " were popular in Italy.

During the 1980s, anime gained in popularity, with new animated movies released every summer and winter, often based upon popular anime television series.

" During the war, Orwell was highly critical of the popular idea that an Anglo-Soviet alliance would be the basis of a post-war world of peace and prosperity.

During World War II and for decades after, the phrase " Kilroy was here " with accompanying illustration was widespread throughout the world, due to its use by American troops and its filtering into American popular culture.

During the 1970s and early 1980s, this show was probably the best-known showcase for popular country music on commercial television, aside from other half-hour performer-hosted syndicated shows ( most notably The Porter Wagoner Show, which is perhaps the only other weekly country music show of this era to approach Hee Haws longevity.

During the second half of the 20th century, the sound of the harpsichord ( or perhaps rather more often, its electronically created equivalent ) became very familiar in popular culture, appearing frequently in popular music, television, films, computer games, and so on.

During the period of the French Revolution, Rousseau was the most popular of the philosophes among members of the Jacobin Club.

During his time as Archbishop he adamantly refused to host lavish social gatherings, which made him popular with the common people, but unpopular with wealthy citizens and the clergy.

During the Tōjō-regime this was suspended, arguably stemming from the popular belief that any defendant who risks his fate on the opinions of untrained laymen is almost certainly guilty.

During the period, Tito evidently enjoyed massive popular support due to being generally viewed by the populace as the liberator of Yugoslavia.

During the Renaissance, the genre of chivalric romance became popular in literature, growing ever more idealistic and eventually giving rise to a new form of realism in literature popularised by Miguel de Cervantes ' Don Quixote.

During the Tang Dynasty a small parrot ventures out to search for its mother's favourite food upon which it is captured by a poacher ( parrots were quite popular during the Tang Dynasty ).

During his tenure he also fulfilled guest engagements at the Berlin State Opera.

During his tenure he publicly defended the Dominicans against attacks by the secular and regular faculty of the University of Paris, commented on St John, and answered what he perceived as errors of the Arabian philosopher Averroes.

During his tenure as abbot, he supported the abbey with gifts ; the medieval chronicler William of Malmesbury said that they were splendid and many.

During most of his tenure with Capp, Frazetta's primary responsibility — along with various specialty art, such as a series of Li ' l Abner greeting cards — was tight-penciling the Sunday pages from studio roughs.

During the tenure of the government from 1995 to 1999, Thackeray was nicknamed ' remote control ' since he played a major role in government policies and decisions from behind the scenes.

During Selig's tenure as club president, the Brewers participated in postseason play in 1981, when the team finished first in the American League East during the second half of the season, and in 1982, when the team made it to the World Series, under the leadership of future Hall of Famers Robin Yount and Paul Molitor.

During his tenure the game avoided a third work stoppage in 2002, and has seen the implementation of interleague play.

During his tenure he experienced some criticism from within his own party for abandoning its traditional social democratic teachings and promoting a neoliberal economic model.

During Lee A. DuBridge's tenure as Caltech's president ( 1946 – 1969 ), Caltech's faculty doubled and the campus tripled in size.

During his tenure Doke developed and promoted a method of linguistic analysis and description of the Bantu languages that was based upon the structure of these languages.

During three out of the last six quarters of Pfeiffer's tenure, the company's revenues or earnings had missed expectations.

During his tenure as President, Kawamata stated that he " regretted that his company did not imprint its corporate name on cars, the way Toyota does.

During his tenure as Cowboys coach, Tom Landry co-hosted his own coach's show with late veteran sportscaster Frank Glieber and later with Brad Sham.

During his tenure at the White House, Rohrabacher played a leading role in the formulation of the Reagan Doctrine.

During his tenure, Burnett was 49 – 50 with a 3. 73 ERA, 14 complete games and a team record 8 shutouts, tied with Dontrelle Willis.

During Guido's tenure in this office, Paschal II yielded to the military threats of Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor, and was induced to issue the Privilegium in the year 1111.

During his tenure, Bush headed administration task forces on deregulation and fighting drug abuse.

During his tenure, he sponsored more African American players than any other major league executive.

During tenure as a member of the Congress, Middleton was not a supporter of immediate independence from Great Britain, himself remaining loyal to the crown.

During her tenure as state attorney, Reno began what the PBS series Frontline described as a " crusade " against accused child abusers.

During his tenure there, Ashcroft shared an office with future U. S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

During Brezhnev's tenure as Party leader, Chernenko's career continued successfully.

During his tenure at Harvard, he was, among many other things, an early student of the effect of the last Ice Age on North America.

During Najibullah's tenure as KHAD head, it became one of the most efficient governmental organs.

During his tenure as leader of Afghanistan, the Soviets began their withdrawal, and from 1989 until 1992, his government tried to solve the ongoing civil war without Soviet troops on the ground.