Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...switch, Khrushchev rid himself of the man who helped him get rid of Zhukov, just as he had rid himself of Zhukov three months after the marshal helped him get rid of Molotov & Co. The further result was to give a member of the proffessional officers' corps the unpopular choice of enforcing the December directives 1) making compulsory 50 hours of indoctrination lectures yearly, and 2) making attendance obligatory for all, including highest-ranking officers...
Former mayor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, a C.C.A. councilor, who has made himself unpopular by his consistent opposition to Vellucci and other council members, has promised to vote for any C.C.A. candidate...
...order ended a heated race among the nation's major planemakers to bring forth a suitable medium-range jet for United. Boeing nabbed the contract by carefully studying requirements of United and other air carriers, and by revamping its unpopular 717 medium-range jet into an improved, 600-m.p.h. model. The four-engine 720, whose existence was revealed only a few days before United announced its order, puts Boeing on the inside track in the brisk competition for further medium-range jet orders. It will carry 100 to 125 passengers (v. 120 to 150 for the larger...
...vote was taken as civil servants, perhaps a million strong, went on strike and shouted in the streets for higher wages. A desire to restore damaged French prestige abroad and fear of opening a new political crisis at home forced the deputies to go along with Gaillard's unpopular special powers bill...
Despite riots and bloodshed, Chile's President Carlos Ibanez del Campo (who will visit the U.S. next month) has stuck by the unpopular anti-inflationary course charted by the U.S. economic consulting firm of Klein & Saks (TIME, May 7, 1956). This year, as signs of success multiplied, the program took a terrible blow: the price of copper-source of 30% of all government revenues-fell 35%. New pleas to ease the belt-tightening program poured in, but crusty old (80) Austerocrat Ibanez held firm. Said he: "I am a man without a future. But we need to keep this...