Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Qumrân settlement, he said, was founded by a group of "religious extremists," the Essenes. They probably fled into the desert from Jerusalem's evil priest-king, Alexander Jannaeus, who ruled from 103 to 76 B.C. The unpopular Jannaeus was once pelted with fruit on the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkoth). According to Professor Allegro, this was the man who descended on Qumrân and arrested its leader, the mysterious "Teacher of Righteousness," whom he turned over to his mercenaries to be crucified...
...Section did recognize as the work of a bona fide traitor was a list of French military secrets that it ran across in September 1894. Historian Chapman ably retells the story of how, with a few slipshod handwriting comparisons, a War Office clique decided that studious, impersonable. wealthy and unpopular Captain Alfred Dreyfus was the logical culprit. Author Chapman argues that Dreyfus' court-martial and imprisonment at Devil's Island were mostly a tragedy of honest errors, not a conspiracy of racial malice...
...Unpopular Side. Like Socrates, Koestler is a man with the disconcerting habit of following arguments where they lead. This latest collection of his essays (more notable: The Yogi and the Commissar} reveals that Koestler is still looking for an adjudicator in the long debate in which, as in The Right to Say No, he habitually takes the con. People pro-any-thing get short shrift from Con-Man Koestler. Yet Americans should find themselves stimulated by this tough controversialist. Some examples of Koestler's talent for taking the unpopular side of an argument: ¶ In Judah...
This policy is the latest Air Force which in the past has made the unit here both unpopular and unpopulated. In the spring of 1954, the service informed the Harvard AFROTC that all seniors who would not fly, could not be commissioned. Students in the administrative program, despite heated protests to Washington, received slight compensation: opportunities to serve in the Air National Guard. This move, unjust as it was, caused a rapid drop in the enrollment of the College's unit until, by this fall, AFROTC was the smallest of the three services here...
Under the terms of the agreement that the clubs' presidents drew up, the Constitution, by-laws, and resolutions of the NCC will remain in effect. What the merger really provides is the dissolution of the unpopular HCL, and the creation of one undergraduate organization to represent Conservatism...