Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...refused to follow a papal nunciate's political instructions. He was thereupon quietly retired, given the honorary title of Bishop of Maura, no diocese. From the outside, Duarte took an increasingly critical view of what he considered his church's political leanings. He became increasingly outspoken and unpopular with his superiors...
...with nonworshipers, he was utterly cynical. He named his riding horses after the men he had bribed; he "bought" the entire South African press ("There is no reason why one should not be properly reported"). When Irish Nationalist Charles Stewart Parnell complained that his divorce had made him unpopular with Roman Catholics, Rhodes exclaimed: "Can't you square the Pope...
Fads & Phases. Non-fiction was notably unpopular during the years between 1895 and 1911. Only with the publication of Wells's Outline in 1921 did factual books of general or topical interest begin to rival romance and adventure. But topicality, whether in fact or fiction, has proved no more certain an index to popularity than literary merit. With its sensational expose of the "meat trust" in 1906, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle created a furore worthy of Zola and led directly to the passage of the Pure Food and Drugs Act. But on the year's best...
...another occasion a man whom I hated on sight told me he imagined he was disliked by everybody. Instead of asking him whether he was unpopular at school or whether his mother loved him or not, I said: 'It's not imagination at all. You are disliked by everybody...
...Argentine people had always been predominantly pro-Ally, but many of them considered it unsportsmanlike to enter the war so late against such nearly beaten enemies. The motives of the unpopular military Government were obvious to all: by declaring war and meeting the other requirements laid down at the Mexico City Conference, the regime might snuggle again in the bosom of hemisphere harmony. Thus relieved of pressure from abroad, it might hold phony elections (even "elect" Strongman Perón to the Presidency), stay in power indefinitely...