Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they find my delivery most enchanting. So the offer is: a half-hour's story-reading a day, minus time wasted in waiting for them to come to order during the day. The minute I stand still and start staring at the clock, the refractory few become unpopular. I get lots of help in quieting down the room that...
Schoenberner's first job was with the Musa Press-a big publishing house owned by an eccentric millionaire who also had aa interest in a vest-pocket calculating machine. Then young Schoenberner became the Sitzredakteur (Sitting Editor) of the Munich Auslandspost, an unpopular job which meant chiefly that if the owner fell foul of the law, Schoenberner had the privilege of sitting in prison for him. From there, Schoenberner advanced to the editorship of Jugend (Youth), a noted humorous-literary weekly in Munich...
...fascist revival, or to use the current term: NeoFacism. "The horrible experience which Italy has been through will keep her wary of any such plans," he declared. "But, on the other hand, the mistakes made in Italy by England and the United States have made Democracy as unpopular as Fascism. Many Italians look at it very simply; Democracy is Fascism plus hypocrisy. Many Italians will next turn to Communism. They don't think very deeply about anything: Fascism failed, Democracy seems to be failing, let us try Communism...
...grain, nine million tons of coal must reach Europe from the Americas before July. Needy countries will call for other foods, clothing, fuels, building supplies and machinery. Long port delays, irregular schedules, return trips in ballast, diversions to out-of-the-way points, make this type of carrying unpopular with private shipowners, eager to get back to lucrative regular runs. It will be a job largely for the nations with "surplus" ships-more ships than they need to carry their own trade...
Succumbing to last week's pandemic strike fever, the women elevator operators of Boston's 13-story Statler Building held an excited conference over cigarets in the powder room. They decided to strike posthaste for discharge of their unpopular supervisor and a raise...