Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plainly a community may not suppress, or the state tax, the dissemination of views which are unpopular, annoying or distasteful. If that device were ever sanctioned there would have been forged a ready instrument for the suppression of the faith which any minority cherishes but which does not happen to be in favor. That would be a complete repudiation of the philosophy of the Bill of Rights...
...Rome, supposedly safe from bombing, is completely blacked out. Few cinemas operate: Italian companies produce very few pictures, and German pictures are unpopular. Puppet shows, performing dogs, old traveling artists have made a comeback. Churches are packed; confessionals are besieged by penitents, and huge religious demonstrations are frequent in towns and cities throughout the country...
...again. He went to France a lieutenant, became captain of the 129th Field Artillery's rough-&-tumble Battery D. He was shy, reserved, wore big shell-rimmed glasses: to his pugnacious Irish privates he looked like something of a milquetoast. At the start he was perhaps the most unpopular captain in France. But he led his men doggedly through St. Mihiel and the Argonne, spiked a panic when German artillery once drew a bead on his battery, lost only one soldier killed and one wounded, was promoted to major. On the ship back from France his men took...
...mislead you girls on the bowties for last Saturday, but you gotta start a column with something! It was a nice party, anyhoo, thanks to hundreds of beautiful girls, including our chief hostess, Mrs. Giard, who's mad at me for reading the funnies while dancing... The only unpopular guy there was somebody named Paul Jones who seemed to lose friends and alienate people after 2300 and two drinks with the same woman. At least Ruby Newman had a helluva good time...
...instance, in his zeal for the cause of Toscanini, wrote recently in the "Nation" that he found Koussevitsky's Beethoven and Brahms "impossible to listen to." For the most part, he is a very acute critic, perhaps the most acute, but he has an uncanny nose for the unpopular attitude. When Toscanini was at the height of his glory and powers back in '36, Haggin thought he was a pedantic Italian opera hack, but now that the aging maestro has very obviously lost his spark, Haggin is daily discovering new wonders of poetic sensitivity and insight in his tired performances...