Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alaska's six convention votes. Collecting more votes than either Democrat was Republican Eisenhower, even though his Administration was supposedly in bad odor because Ike had opposed immediate Alaskan statehood. The straw: In Alaska, at least, the Administration's territorial and conservation policies are not nearly as unpopular as the Democrats have cracked them...
...Robert Lacoste had been insisting he needed at least 100,000 more troops to restore order in Algeria. For weeks schoolmasterly Socialist Premier Guy Mollet put off the decision. He knew that France's military barrel was empty, and that reinforcements could be found only through the politically unpopular method of recalling reservists. And as a Socialist, he had campaigned on a liberal program of "peace in Algeria," based on concessions and negotiations. Last week Lacoste flew back to Paris and threatened to resign unless the troops were forthcoming. Faced with the hard logic of rebellion, Mollet sadly took...
...such a group could impose unpopular decisions," he added. "An integrated administration would be such a fundamental revision of academic procedure that it wouldn't work, even if it were desirable. And it wouldn't be desirable because it would remove decisions from the men who would have to carry them out," he said...
...event of 1948; and the participation of many Republicans and independents in its Democratic primary stimulated that hope, especially when the much smaller Republican primary vote is considered. 2) The Democratic Party may be headed for a Southern insurrection; and if this happens the claim that a Southerner, however unpopular in his section, has a better chance than another to hold down the loss of Southern votes may determine the choice of the convention...
...Macmillan. the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, said ruefully: "One of the Prince Regent's physicians earned a certain notoriety, though not perhaps very large fees, by telling his royal patient that all that was wrong with him was that he was too greedy. That was no doubt unpopular, and politicians have no occupational bias in favor of unpopularity. But I must confess that something of the sort seems a fair description of us and our economy...