Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...danger of these ambushed soundings of public opinion comes in making the President subject to every caprice of popular enthusiasm. The prepared statements issued by Presidents prior to Harding told the public just what the President intended to do without leaving him a loophole of escape when he advocated unpopular policies...
When you were 10-12 years of age were you the goat for your playmates? In playing war would they force you to fight on the unpopular side...
...public has come to form an extra-judicial jury which demands that its decisions be enforced. In order to pronounce an unpopular sentence on Leopold and Loeb the judge was forced to take preventive measures against personal assault. And the nation is so sure of its decision (based on newspaper evidence) against Rescoe Arbuckle, that his jury acquittal has done nothing to remove the official ban on his films throughout the country. "Vanity Fair's", satire is amply justified. The public never admit's being wrong, and it is little, concerned to give an unpopular man a chance...
...doubt a highly unpopular, and some will say impracticable, proposal to suggest that a return be made to those days as soon as we can do so, but it is our frankly expressed opinion that this is the course to take. it would mean limiting the opponents of any college that undertook that change to those who did likewise. But if some one leading university one of these days firmly took this stand we believe that enough others would be glad to follow suit to make it practicable. And a difficult problem would have been solved...
Possibly there are few more unpopular figures in Hungary than Admiral Nicholas Horthy von Nagybanya, present Regent of Hungary (whatever that may mean), son of a rich Protestant farmer in the district of Szobiok...