Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under a heading LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEES SHOULD NOT BE BULLIES, the Times sternly editorialized: "It is no proper function of a legislative committee ... to turn itself into a prosecutor of what may currently be unpopular. . . . When they turn themselves into witch-burning agencies . . . they go far afield...
...middle 40s, João Alberto is tallish, slender. A nervous tic periodically distorts his face. His kindly, scholarly bearing does not match his violent past or his present push. Brazilians tell some cynical tales about his appetite for money, and they remember his successful but intensely unpopular term as Federal Interventor in the rebellious State of São Paulo. He plays the piano beautifully, has almost memorized his favorite book, The Arabian Nights. He speaks English, is pro-American, has a son in the U.S. Air Forces. Among his pals: Sumner Welles and Carmen Miranda...
...Rule for Ireland, Reform of the House of Lords and her Liberal arch-antagonist and recurrent Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone. Gladstone was at once a passionate monarchist, reformer, and pillar of brazen endurance. Monarch and monarchist battled for 20 years. Much of the time the widowed Queen was unpopular with her subjects because she insisted on secluding herself in her country palaces...
...unmoved, and apparently unhearing, through 60 solid miles of praise. He believed that if you ignored the fickle crowd's catcalls you should also ignore its plaudits, and as a commander in Spain he had had to ignore its criticisms. Not many years later he was the most unpopular man in England. Once a huge mob stormed his mansion and smashed every window while the Duke sat inside beside the dead body of his wife. Once he made his way home from the Tower of London through howling crowds. He remained almost as expressionless through five miles of hostility...
Since Franco's victory the Falange has become intensely unpopular with virtually all other Spanish groups. A favorite Madred café joke runs that the Falange has unified all Spain-in hatred of the Falange...