Word: man-in-the-street
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...Ottawa, where squatter chief Franklyn E. Hanratty's Veterans' Housing League had won considerable man-in-the-street support and a measure of respectability, people took a new and harder look at his organization. The Ottawa Journal thought it saw some Communists in the membership, and said so. Ottawa's Citizen wagged a warning finger about Communist "disrupting of established order...
...British man-in-the-street was too tired to reply, but into the breach sprang his favorite spokesman, Columnist Nat Gubbins of London's Sunday Express...
...Luzon. But it was too early to guess at the outcome. Smart, flashy Manuel Roxas would have the edge in political sex appeal, and Philippine voters traditionally disregard platforms and causes to vote for personal reasons. He has always been popular with Juan de la Cruz, the Filipino man-in-the-street. Rumor had it that several rich island families would back him in buying up blocs of votes from local political leaders-a custom which every candidate must duly observe. But he also had a cross to bear-he had held political office during the Japanese occupation...
...Japanese man-in-the-street, interviewed by Allied newsmen, reacted in typical Japanese fashion: he himself had never really believed the Emperor divine. Perhaps he meant it. Perhaps he was characteristically saying what he thought his interviewers wanted him to say. Perhaps he was just being bafflingly Japanese...
...Never Was. Interviewing the man-in-the-street, the pollsters found a deep and turbulent stream of consciousness to explore...