Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain, the plan, long known in outline and long discussed, met with sober approval. After Suez there was no use even pretending that Britain could act alone. "Realistic, sensible, and therefore drastic," said the Manchester Guardian. Politically minded Tories noted gratefully that the unpopular conscription might end just about general election time in 1960. Laborites could hardly oppose an arms cut they have long been urging...
...dances of his fun-loving people, banned their movies, shuttered their nightclubs; of a kidney ailment; in Madrid. His denunciation of Protestantism, and even of Franco's limited religious tolerance ("It causes one real pain to see the tolerance shown toward non-Catholic sects . . .") made him almost as unpopular with many of his fellow Catholics as with Protestants, eventually (1955) caused his diocesan duties to be shifted by the Vatican, in consultation with Franco, to another prelate...
...Force installed Schriever in the Pentagon to help plan a vague new development program. Month after month thereafter, he moved unobtrusively about the fringes of the chaos of the U.S.'s first moves into missilery. As early as 1950 he was one of the very few-and very unpopular-airmen who did not like the Air Force's cherished B-52. Schriever argued obstinately for a lighter, faster bomber that could fire air-to-ground missiles...
Reversing Sea Water. Geologists believe that Long Beach has two possible recourses, both expensive. It can stop oil production and thus keep the ground from sinking as much as it would if all oil were removed. This measure would be unpopular, and probably impossible...
...Batista is "generally unpopular." <| "There is more corruption than ever, and this is saying a great deal in Cuba." <| "Highly respected citizens" all over Cuba have joined in a civil resistance movement against dictatorship and corruption, are supporting Castro. "An internal struggle is now taking place that is more than an effort by the outs to get in."