Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thirty on numerous Saturdays. The vested interest which defends this imposition, the House Dance Committee, could do well to make their affairs sufficiently attractive so that a non-captive group might patronize them. If House Dances are popular, they could make money on a voluntary basis. If they are unpopular but are still deemed worthy of existence, perhaps some Dance Studio or finishing school could subsidize them. As it is the rule makes them intolerably crowded and drives those who object to hordes of dancers in search of more expensive entertainment...
...Pulaski County. Ark., says that about half of the people on the county's free-food rolls would be removed if they were investigated, but there are not enough county workers to check on them. Taxpayers-and politicians-have learned that opposition to the program is extremely unpopular. The program has other faults and inequalities; e.g., a Mississippi family of four is eligible only if its income is under $100 a month, but a Michigan family of four can get free supplies if its income is under $265 a month...
...family moved from one cheap apartment to another, the parents always squabbling, often on the verge of breaking up. Maria remembers her childhood with bitterness: "My sister was slim and beautiful and friendly, and my mother always preferred her. I was the ugly duckling, fat and clumsy and unpopular. It is a cruel thing to make a child feel ugly and unwanted." Forced to wear heavy spectacles for her myopic eyes, little Maria avoided schoolmates, ate compulsively (sometimes a whole pound of cheese at breakfast). "I hated school, I hated everybody. I got fatter and fatter." But when...
...Konrad Adenauer, to accept a military draft is but a symptom, though an important one, of feelings in France and Holland. Adenauer reasons that if America can afford to institute a manpower cut that will spell pulling out of our European bases, Germany need not meet its violently unpopular quota of 500,000 men in arms...
...learned (through press reports) that Admiral Arthur Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had tentatively proposed that the U.S. take advantage of increased nuclear firepower by lopping 800,000 men off its armed forces in the next four years. To Adenauer, who had just pushed a highly unpopular conscription bill through the Bundestag in response to U.S. pressure for West German rearmament, it was particularly galling that his old friend John Foster Dulles had not given him advance warning of the Radford plan (TIME, Sept. 3). U.S. assurances failed to calm him. The more he pondered, the more...