Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said critics of the bill: 1) it endangered civil liberties; innocent but misguided citizens were not given sufficient protection in the courts; 2) the bill could conceivably be used as a weapon against labor unions, or against any unpopular, radical or disaffected group; 3) the bill's phrases could be interpreted in various ways...
...near disaster. They had lost about $40 million in wages. Many stood to lose their jobs if it was proved that they had taken part in violence. At the end, the strikers had only a choice of abject surrender or wrecking their union by continuing an 'unpopular, losing fight. It was Labor's most painful beating on the postwar strike front...
...come to the end of a policy. At Bogotá, the American nations had agreed to junk the old practice of not recognizing dictatorial or unpopular governments. Last week the U.S. (and Colombia) recognized the sovereign state of Nicaragua, ruled over by smirking, slippery Dictator Anastasio "Tacho" Somoza...
...mentioned that a wage revision was made last year, with the result that student waiters received free meals when on duty. Since other meals, however, had to be paid for at the coupon rate, which is higher than the basic board rate of $11.50 a week, the change proved unpopular...
Montreal's press kept editorially mum, but Ontario's staunchly conservative Toronto Globe & Mail thundered: "Today the padlock law is used against a paper which is unpopular and weak. Tomorrow it can be used against any political foe which the Union Nationale Government chooses to regard as offensive...