Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Osbert was packed off early to the first of a series of fashionable schools and wound up, of course, at Eton. As he remembers them, they were all so horrible that he reviews the experience with "insuperable repugnance." He was highly unpopular with other boys, and, in turn, loathed both them and the masters. One of his contemporaries was Lord Digby's son, who frequently received a box of orchids from the family conservatory. Osbert sometimes got an orchid to wear in his buttonhole; he is "still grateful," he says, "for the magic with which these flowers temporarily touched...
...January 1942, Canada's liquid reserves of U.S. dollars and gold had fallen to $174,000,000, barely enough to finance war purchases for six weeks, the Foreign Exchange Control Board revealed. To conserve the rapidly dwindling reserves, drastic exchange controls were imposed, including the highly unpopular ban on use of U.S. dollars by Canadians for pleasure trips. But it was the inflow of dollars under the Hyde Park Agreement that helped most...
When Belgium was freed, he was one of the first back. As Finance Minister he put through the unpopular but very successful decrees which took the wind out of Belgium's inflation (TIME, Nov. 6, 1944) and started the nation on the road to recovery months ahead of any other European country...
...Catholic M.R.P., it definitely opposed the Constitution; but its punches were inevitably pulled because M.R.P. participates in the "present coalition Government with Communists and Socialists. M.R.P. feared that a complete break with the Left would identify it with the unpopular Right...
Because of the proven worth of the tutorial plan, no member of Faculty or the Administration dares take the unpopular stand of advocating an abandonment of the system. Each protesting its championship of tutorial, the Faculty and the Administration have made of the system an academic football. With each side disclaiming responsibility, the undergraduate is caught in the middle, helplessly watching the one factor which to him has made a Harvard education unique in the United States being slowly whittled away to insignificance...