Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unpopular person: drizzle, drone, fumb, glom, herkle, hinkle, square, toad
...letter to the CRIMSON, Campbell asserted that "those of us who fought for retention of the system last year know how unpopular it is with many members of the Faculty and the Administration." He also predicted that the practical difficulties now standing in the way of tutorial would have considerably abated within two years. "Then a full scale effort should be made to restore tutorial throughout the College," he added...
...ranked third in order of choice for Grant Study men as graduates and undergraduates, and also for Freshmen. A career in the Army or Navy proved most unpopular of all occupations...
...days' standing, Correspondent Ingersoll concluded that it was "a highly complicated situation which cannot easily be analyzed in brief news dispatches." That didn't stop him from trying. Everybody damns the Government's secret police for "excesses and almost all agree that it is presently unpopular with most of the people," he wrote, and "there is no question at all but that they [the Communists] carry the most weight in the Government." But it was "gross oversimplification" to call Poland either a police state or a Communist state. Said Ingersoll mysteriously: Poland's Government...
...stock, they took railroad rails, they took chickens and cows and pigs. They took doorknobs off the doors and hinges off the windows." The Russians have learned, said Scott, that "if they are going to carry on this kind of a reparation policy they are going to be politically unpopular-and they are politically unpopular." Now, politically, "they have begun to retreat, to adopt a defensive attitude. They have got to this attitude . . . because of the pressure of internal economic forces in Russia and because of the pressure of a positive American and a positive British policy which have begun...