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was and popular
On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.
Then suddenly there was a tremendous revulsion of popular feeling.
Now, although the roots of the mystery story in serious literature go back as far as Balzac, Dickens, and Poe, it was not until the closing decades of the 19th century that the private detective became an established figure in popular fiction.
The double editorial on Two Aspects Of `` The U.S. Spirit '' was subtly calculated to suggest a moral sanction for gambles great as well as small, reflecting popular approval of this questionable attitude toward the highest office in the land.
and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;
A popular belief grew up after the war that the only time during the Civil War that Thomas ever put his horse to a gallop was when he went to hurry up Stanley for this assault.
He was especially popular with women, for, like the romantic poetry he wrote, he was personally gracious, gallant, and chivalrous.
Since Rhode Island at that time did not have such sanction, his opinion was not popular.
Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.
In the middle of the century, with a circulation of 90,000, the Post was one of the most popular weeklies in the country.
he knows that he was never more popular than at the time of the Russo-American `` honeymoon '' of 1959.
For decades it was the most popular dish served in the Ladies' Grill at breakfast, and it is one of the few old Palace dishes that still survive.
He was criticized for his curtness and abruptness -- and he answered: `` I am not working to become popular ''.
When the power of the latter was made both limited and explicit -- when norms were clarified and made more precise and the creation of new norms was placed exclusively in parliamentary hands -- two purposes were served: Government was made subservient to an institutionalized popular will, and law became a rational system for implementing that will, for serving conscious goals, for embodying the `` public policy ''.
It was merely a rationalization and ordering of new institutions of popular government.
For an instant his men hesitated, unable to believe that their lieutenant, the most popular officer in the regiment, was dead.
not long ago `` Denver Mud '' was most popular.
Uncle John Vinnicum Morse was the immediate popular suspect.
From the seventeenth to the nineteenth century it was a popular practice to flood the piazza in the summer, and the aristocrats would then ride around the inundated square in their carriages.
I was curious about the impact of this political assassination on Negroes in Harlem, for Lumumba had -- has -- captured the popular imagination there.
Not only in popular thought but in that of the highly educated as well was this true.
Although the particular form of conceptualization which popular imagination had made in response to the experience of spirit was undoubtedly defective, the raw experience itself which led to such excesses remains with us as vividly as ever.

was and under
Her face was very thin, and burned by the sun until much of the skin was dead and peeling, the new skin under it red and angry.
Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.
There was brush, and stands of pine that no grass could grow under, and places so steep that cattle wouldn't stop to graze.
under the circumstances I was only too willing to confess all.
There was a blur just under my focus of vision, a crash ; ;
Her heart, her maternal feeling, in fact her being was too busy expressing itself, as quietly thrilled by this sight of her Nicolas curled asleep under a blanket, in a park like a scene from Poussin.
He was a huge young man of twenty-four, clothed in muscle, immensely strong, with a habitual gentleness and diffidence of manner that was submerged under his present agitation.
He had his voice under control again: no one became aware that he was terrified by what had just happened to him.
Matsuo had faked death and was pitched on a stack of corpses, both the burned and the unburned, the latter decomposing rapidly under the tropical sun.
But the fences were still in place fifty-odd years ago, and when we stood on the gate to look over, the sidewalk under our eyes was not cement but two rows of paving stones with grass between and on both sides.
But I suspect that the old Roman was referring to change made under military occupation -- the sort of change which Tacitus was talking about when he said, `` They make a desert, and call it peace '' ( `` Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant ''.
The first of which to find important place in our federal government was the graduated income tax under Wilson.
The earlier of them was an unofficial enterprise, sponsored by Life magazine, under the title of The National Purpose.
A Comedy In Three Acts '', in which, under `` Personages '', Henrietta appeared as `` A Schoolmarm '', and Bertha, who was only a trifle less brilliant in high school than Henrietta had been, appeared as `` Dummkopf ''.
While this was under consideration, dauntless as ever Wright set about the building of Taliesin 3.
But what you could not know, of course, was how smoothly the Victorian Fitzgerald was to lead into an American Fitzgerald of my own vintage under whose banner we adolescents were to come, if not of age, then into a bright, taut semblance of it.
Blenheim was followed in rapid succession by Ramillies And The Union With Scotland and by The Peace And The Protestant Succession, the three forming together a detailed picture of England under Queen Anne.
There was only one hitch: the small town of Kehl, on the other side of the Rhine, was still under French jurisdiction.
If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.

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