Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...truth which we Americans prefer to ignore: that certain moral principles can and do transcend mere personal happiness. I don't want "popularity" and "happiness" first of all for my children; if they attain the moral stature I wish for them I know they will often be both unpopular and unhappy...
...unpopular in Holmes County, Miss. is to criticize the sheriff for mistreating a Negro. When good-looking, dark-haired Mrs. Hazel Brannon Smith, 41, tried this in the two weeklies she owns and edits, she found herself on the losing end of a libel suit filed by the sheriff. But last week, thanks to a Mississippi Supreme Court decision, Editor Smith's courageous editorial voice had the last-and winning-word...
...Roger Bannister, are all factors which in the last few years have combined to bolster that waning confidence. Princess Margaret will start no revolution whatever she may do, but things are now so far advanced that if, in the end, she gives up Townsend, the outcome will be highly unpopular with many Britons, an unpopularity essentially derived not from the feeling that stuffiness has conquered love, but from the conviction that her choice was not a free...
...home. Butler's face flushed, and one or two of his back-bench supporters deserted him and voted with the Laborites when the division came. In the end, the Tories had the votes, and Butler's budget would be accepted; yet his remedies were not only unpopular, they were also, to many minds, inadequate...
Another problem is the relative effect of televising popular and unpopular games. The HAA is not willing to say whether next year's Yale game will be televised. Certainly with the game being played at Soldiers Field, the possibility would be extremely attractive. Unlike this year's Yale Bown game, next year's game is virtually assured of being a sell-out, with or without...