Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hottest potato in U.S. war production. It has been championed as the answer to the manpower pinch, as a shot in the arm to hop war production up as much as 30%. It has also been condemned as a backward step towards the piecework system (particularly unpopular with automotive workers), the speedup, the sweatshop...
...long July days, with the fish jumping and the beaches cool, made the hard lot of the OPA inspector that much harder. Up & down the land, OPAsters found themselves as unpopular as prohibition agents once were...
...often in the past, the Very Rev. William Ralph Inge ("The Gloomy Dean"), former Dean of St. Paul's, made an unpopular point. Said he of the Continent's bomb-shattered cathedrals: "What a plane does, striking blind in a few seconds, will be remembered against us for all time...
...story is of the battle between Ray MacKenzie and the professor for the girl, complicated because Ray does not know until late in the battle that he is fighting anyone. The theme of Trio, troubling and unpopular, has the narrow importance of illuminating one aspect of the emotional disorder in American moral and educational life. What the simple Ray did not guess at first was that the relationship between the sharp professor and the trembling student had been intimate enough to drive Janet into a mental home. He discovered Pauline to be more than "a sort of good-looking clotheshorse...
...began, transportation was almost at a standstill; some towns had been dark nine months because there was no oil for lamps; meat, bread, salt, rice, fish and matches were either rationed or unavailable. Economic ills weakened political or der. During a funeral procession the coffin of an unpopular public magistrate was broken to bits...