Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There need not be, however, any increase whatsoever if the Dining Hall authorities summon the courage to take some possibly unpopular moves. The first move, ideally, would entail reduction of the numbers of workers employed in the College dining halls, against the undoubted opposition of the union. In fiscal 1958, the Dining Hall Department spent $3,576,547--of which 44.1 per cent went to purchase of foodstuffs...
...rigid ethics. He felt that the only cure would be suitable discipline for the offending undergraduates--but his clamping down produced even greater disorder. Quincy became a martinet, the "Tiberius" of the College. "His policy toward the students, an alternate cuffing and caressing, ended in making him the most unpopular President in Harvard history since Hoar," wrote historian Samuel Eliot Morison. Quincy knew what was right--the Puritan code of upright moral behavior--and attempted to impose this upon the naturally unwilling student body...
Like early converts to many another unpopular faith, Jones soon found himself persecuted. In 1906 two small children complained to a teacher that he had "behaved indecently" with them while making a speech test. Jones was arrested, and, although the case was eventually dismissed, it left him a marked man. Later he tried analytic treatment on a girl of ten with hysterical paralysis of the left arm, decided that the origin of the paralysis lay in an incident of sexual "play" with a slightly older boy. For Dr. Jones to discuss sex with a little girl struck Edwardians as outrageous...
...meeting-which Macmillan supporters credit him with sparking-and has seemingly not been hurt at home by Labor's effective jabs at British colonial failures in Africa. But above all, Macmillan owes his popularity to Britain's current prosperity. Two years ago Macmillan gambled on a politically unpopular anti-inflation budget and an unprecedented increase in the bank rate to 7%. This year these austere fiscal policies of the Conservatives have paid off-in more ways than...
Tower of Hope. World War II's crash programs on many scientific fronts brought Dr. Rhoads to another conclusion unpopular in medical circles: a frontal attack on cancer, with experts in a dozen sciences working toward the same goal, should pay off faster than the traditional uncoordinated approach of peacetime. In General Motors' Boss Alfred P. Sloan Jr. he found a kindred spirit. Sloan put up the first $4,000,000, laid the foundations for the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research-a 14-story tower of hope beside Memorial Hospital. Rhoads was its director...