Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...national hero that Des Moines outburst now makes him a national "dud" and probably the most unpopular national figure in America. I should think he would retire from the public limelight just as quickly as it takes to pack up and go home...
These two were the most thunderous writers and talkers about the art of warfare in the years of peace. Both saw that war would come again, both dared to shout warnings when such shouting was unpopular. Wells, the dreamer, seeing how bad the war would be, was for avoiding it by organizing a new and better world. Churchill, the doer, urged military action...
...many thinking groups that have switched from an unpopular peace-at-almost-any-price stand to open belligerency against Germany, the Harvard Student Union has been the most recent target for Crimson pot-shots. Yet only last year the Crimson stumbled about trying to find a sinecure that would defeat Hitler and keep America from getting hurt...
With the shortage presented in terms of tank-car and tanker capacity, there were bound to be public gripes at the gas curfew, Senate swats at the unpopular man who thought it up. Mr. Ickes had evidently tried to sell his conservation program on the wrong basis...
Busy drafting protests of innocence to the Argentine Foreign Office, Ambassador von Thermann had the added worry of an unpopular guest. This was Captain Fritz Wiedemann, who was ousted this summer from the German Consulate in San Francisco...