Word: popular
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...ancient popular belief that has recurred throughout Islamic history. In the colonial era, several "Mahdis" announced themselves as liberators. Perhaps the most famous was the "Mahdi of the Sudan," Mohammed Ahmad ibn Abdullah, whose dervish troops killed General Charles ("Chinese") Gordon and the other defenders during the siege of Khartoum...
...Auckland Airport. Coddled by a solicitous crew of 20, the 237 passengers settled down to a hefty breakfast as they began an exotic aerial voyage: an eleven-hour, 7,189-mile flight over the savage, frozen scenery of Antarctica. The $365 tourist junket, of a kind that has become popular in Australia and New Zealand in recent years, had been advertised as "a voyage to the end of the world...
...October, ETS failed to send out admissions tickets to its popular Law School Admissions Test (LSAT). And as of last week, the service had yet to send out those grade and LSAT score summaries it usually starts mailing in October to American law schools that depend on the reports for evaluating applicants. The delays have slowed admissions work throughout the country...
...popular series has spawned avid fans--"trekkies"--who number about 35 million, Joan C. Stanley, vice-president of the Boston Star Trek Association said yesterday...
President Carter claimed at the recent AFLCIO convention (11/15/79) that "We have done nothing for which any administration need apologize." Does President Carter fail to recall that in 1953, the popular government of Dr. Mossadegh was overthrown in a bloody coup d'etat orchestrated by the American administration through the Central Intelligence Agency? Has he forgotten that on June 5th, 1962, more than 10,000 innocent people were shot to death by the American-advised Iranian army? Does he not remember congratulating the Shah on the morning after Black Friday, September 8th, 1977, when the Shah's army shot down...