Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many of us Texans despise Colonel Lindbergh for the ass he has made of himself in his relationships to the American public during the last decade. But we still are realists and as such must concede that the unpopular Colonel is right in most of his conclusions...
...only Congressmen but labor's advocates last week denounced the San Francisco shipyard strike (TIME, May 19). When even Madam Perkins held up her hands in horror, it became 1941's most unpopular walkout...
...Some 8,000 evacuees now occupy 31 new national camp schools run by the Government. They live in cedar houses, have plenty of room to play. They learn, besides ABCs, to garden and mend shoes, and they enjoy getting even with unpopular masters by calling them such names as "Old Heinkel" and "Dive-Bombing Smith." Each camp (enrollment: about 250) costs around $150,000 to build and $30,000 a year to run. So popular are they that the Government indicated they might be continued after...
...primary, basic effort of "reconstructing" America after an expenditure of fifty billions, we are now to try to reconstruct the world at a cost nobody has even taken the trouble to compute and with a probable destructive effect on our own economy which is at present becoming highly unpopular even to mention...
...tossed to the Cambridge carp will have to include the practicality of the plan under present conditions. As things stand now, the adoption of a federal union of the remaining democracies means nothing less than immediate war for the United States, something that George Gallup has just proved quite unpopular...