Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Where's the Goat? In Washington, people got little aid from their representatives. Convinced that gas rationing was misunderstood and unpopular, Senators and Representatives got in tune, lashed out against it. But they had no single goat. Whom were they to blame? Price Boss Leon Henderson? Oil Coordinator Harold Ickes? Donald Nelson...
People familiar with Japan generally suspect that in spite of numerous victories Japan's war is widely unpopular among Japan's meagerly living masses and once-thriving international tradesmen. Such suspicions were strengthened last week by news of the final election returns for the lower house of the Japanese Diet...
...York Post last week: "If we but understood our politics, the clear and simple politics of freedom, we would know that a great battle has been fought in France by Fascism for two years, and that in it Fascism has lost. Hitler did not want the unpopular Laval. If he had wanted him, he could have had him in at any time...
...possibilities for stews from weekly roasts. Offals (liver, brains, kidneys, etc.) are still unrationed, but most of the supplies have been sent to the canning companies. Rarely now can British families sit down to a dinner of their beloved steak & kidney pie. U.S. canned meats, though moderately plentiful, are unpopular because they require so many coupons...
...degree lower than a 'type,' but less severe than 'individu.' ") Armed with a butcher's knife and fortified with three liters of red wine (her daily quota: five liters), Therese was formida ble. She endeared herself to the local wags by surreptitiously serving the unpopular Navet "chat farci" -stuffed...