Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, El Salvador's Embassy was turned over last week to its new secretary, Licenciado Doctor Don Felipe Vega Gomez. Until the United States recently turned on the heat, only two countries (Honduras and Nicaragua) recognized its unpopular Government. TIME's Washington Correspondent Daniel del Solar called up to ask how many nations had now recognized El Salvador. Correspondent Del Solar reported what followed...
Westerners carried five beans in the wheel - five cartridges in their guns. Some - mighty unpopular - "were so tough they'd growed horns and was haired over." Their gun battles were called corpse and cartridge occasions', the aftermath "looked like beef day at an Injun agency." A bad man was a curly wolf, a bandido, cat-eyed, or just a plain killer. Sometimes a curly wolf could stay on the dodge, among the willows, or lookin' over his shoulder for quite a spell. But once caught, his fate was sealed. With a rope around his neck...
...while labor is free to go where it pleases. High priority programs on the Army list which are also feeling the labor pinch are small-arms ammunition, tanks, tires, cotton duck, mines, smelters, basic metal fabrications-all industries involving hard and dirty work, mostly at low pay and therefore unpopular with U.S. workers...
Henry Morgenthau, who as Secretary of the Treasury gets blamed for a lot of taxes but is himself a middle-aged taxpayer, spoke another unpopular mouthful. Urging stiff postwar taxes to retire the national debt (now $231,000,000,000), the 53-year-old Secretary said: "I think people of my generation-of my age-should realize that for the rest of our lives we will be paying high taxes. And I think we should...
...only other play that was produced, his unpopular, elaborate, most ambitious--and probably best--"Guy Domville," was never published. James accepted its failure as the end of his attempts at play-writing. Writing to his brother, William James, about a month after the failure of "Guy Domville," Henry James said, "The whole odiousness of the thing lies in connection between the drama and the theatre. The one is admirable in its interest and difficulty, the other loathe-some in its conditions. If the drama could only be theoretically or hypothetically acted, the fascination resident in its all but unconquerable . . form...