Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...northward along the coastline, perhaps all the way up to Maryland. It will be years before that hope is finally confirmed or disproved. But meanwhile the southeastern boom fosters a nearer-term political purpose for the rugged individualists of the U.S. oil industry. As Oil Czar Ickes backs his unpopular Arabian pipeline (TIME, Feb. 14, et seq.) with dire warnings that the U.S. "cannot oil another war," the industry can use every new oil strike at home as an argument against...
...idea spread, quickly crystallized into the GOU, an amorphous organization of officers below the rank of general. The letters mean Grupo de Oficiales Unidos (Group of United Officers), later idealized into Gobierno, Or den, Uni-dad (Government, Order, Unity). When the military revolution of June 4, 1943 knocked unpopular President Ramon Castillo out of power, the GOU took charge. It has since split up into factions. But Colonel Perón's influence with some of these groups is still the basis of his power...
This Lake Country episode was typical of William Hazlitt's embittered, upsy-downsy life. Born Under Saturn is the first full-length biography in 20 years of the saturnine, unhappy man who was one of 19th-Century England's most brilliant, irascible and unpopular essayists (Lectures on English Poets, Spirit of the Age). The book is passionately pro-Hazlitt. White-haired, scholarly Catherine MacDonald Maclean (Dorothy Wordsworth: The Early Years} defends Hazlitt with the slashing vigor of a mother defending a slightly subnormal child...
...last eight years speaker, a record unexcelled in the Bay State since 1802. He spent much of that time trying to stop the budget extravagances of ambitious Democratic governors. Then, in 1938, Republican Saltonstall won the governorship from tempestuous Democrat James Michael Curley. Some said that the unpopular Curley beat himself, but Saltonstall was re-elected in 1940, although the Democrats that year carried the state for Franklin Roosevelt by 137,000 votes. And since his re-election to a third term in 1942, Lev Saltonstall has been governor of Massachusetts for the longest stretch in 93 years...
First off, Salesman Bowles disarmed his listeners by freely confessing unpopular OPA's many past faults and mistakes: the maddening complexity of its forms and regulations, its failure to consult industry, its overcentralization in Washington, its internal flaws of personnel and organization, its lack of experienced businessmen. Most of these faults the OPAdministrator excused on grounds of haste, inexperience, and the monstrous size of the OPA job (8 million prices now regulated in 3 million business establishments, direct contact with 30 million housewives and 39 million automobile drivers, etc., etc.). All such faults, he assured the Senators, have been...