Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...position taken by the authors is common and understandable, but it is by no means justifiable. In a free society, when opinions become unpopular and dangerous it is most important that they be expressed. To yield to the "climate of fear," to become a scared liberal, is to strengthen the very forces which one opposes. Courage must complement conviction, for otherwise each man will become a rubber stamp content to spent the rest of his life echoing popular beliefs, never daring to dissent, never having courage enough to say what he thinks, and never living as an individual, but only...
...this stand, Segura has become almost as unpopular with many of his fellow Roman Catholics as with Protestants (a British Protestant weekly last month headlined an article on Protestants in Spain: "Pray for Your Brethren Behind the Incense Curtain."). Last week the news from Spain was that the Vatican has curbed crusty old Segura's powers. Rome evidently acted in full understanding with Spain's Dictator, Francisco Franco, whom Segura has often snubbed and attacked for 1) not supporting a Spanish monarchy and 2) allowing the Falange party to be too "anticlerical." The Holy See early this month...
...headless group of bosses was conflicting and shifting. At first he was to be dignified, and act like a statesman. Later in the campaign, he was ordered to attack the Democrats. In the end, he was to be constructive. When Wood invaded Pittsburgh, where Dave Lawrence's unpopular wage tax was a sitting duck, Wood ignored Lawrence, overlooked the burning issue. When Leader challenged him to a debate on the issues, Wood, who is also a farmer, responded with a challenge to a plowing contest. Leader replied that he would plow if Wood would debate. Wood dropped the whole...
Fair-Dealing Columnist DORIS FLEESON : This is a pocketbook election. The emotional issues which swept Gen. Eisenhower into the White House have receded far into the background. The American people may not be proud of the truce in Korea but they have apparently thrust that unpopular war into the back of their minds. They seem to have similarly discounted the setback in Indo-China. Sen. McCarthy is another dead duck. The campaign is lethargic in large part because these emotional, highly personal issues have been superseded by economic questions. And there is no doubt the Democratic trend results from...
...pushing through plans to seize Rome by air after Mussolini's fall; had they done so, he says, the slogging campaign up southern Italy would not have been needed. Anzio, he thinks, was a blunder. But in general, says Morison, the Italian campaign was worth it all-unpopular like Grant's Wilderness campaign of 1864, but equally a campaign that had to be fought. Its bloody cost was more than repaid in Normandy's victories weeks later...