Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Ulbricht counts on the fact that Dahlem, who suffers from a heart ailment, appears to have aged considerably. But it remains a fact that Dahlem would be a natural choice for party leadership should the Russians try to reorganize East German Communism without unpopular Walter Ulbricht...
Characteristically, Siles speaks of his problems as "four big battles"-against inflation, for increased production, against illiteracy, for national unity. He vows to undertake the unpopular measures that he considers necessary: freeze wages, cut out government subsidies, "insist on labor discipline" and "run the mines like a private business...
Years later the anonymous author of this trenchant judgment announced his identity. It was Nehru himself. Today Nehru is very close to being Caesar. Critics complain that his Cabinet consists not of ministers but of courtiers like the mercurial former U.N. delegate Krishna Menon, who is almost as unpopular in India as in the U.S. They charge, too, that Nehru's personal interference in every detail of government has sapped the initiative of his subordinates and prevented the emergence of potential national leaders...
...East Germany, but stronger than it need be merely to act as a burglar alarm." This thinking also coincides with Radford's, but it dismays West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and NATO's retiring boss, General Alfred Gruenther. Adenauer has just bulled his own unpopular conscription bill through the German Parliament, and he let it be known at week's end that he was "extremely concerned...
There is also a premonition among faculty members that their chances for promotion may be weakened by criticism of the University or by saying too many unpopular things. This is admittedly a reasonable suspicion, and probably true at almost any institution...