Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...EUROPE: AS UNPOPULAR AS HITLER...
...Pasha of Marrakech and leader of Morocco's 3,000,000 Berbers, a mountain people who hate the Arabs. The French backed El Glaoui, and replaced Ben Youssef with a stooge loyal to both France and the Berbers: Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa, who is aged, weak and unpopular...
...Gaulle. Yet the cruel fact of this dynamism was that it had forced through an agreement that consecrated the delivery of 12 million Vietnamese to Communism, and that crippled the new state of South Viet Nam by limiting its national army (thereby necessitating the continued presence of the unpopular French colonial army-to Communist advantage...
Home from the wars, Spike was hired by the Naval Academy to run its puny and unpopular boxing program. The Academy was never the same again. Spike organized a boxing team that was undefeated for eleven years. He did not rest until boxing was made an important part of the regular physical training program and one of the biggest crowd attractions at Annapolis. Once, to cut the cheering section to manageable size, the Academy made formal dress the uniform for attending fights. MacDonough Hall gymnasium was still filled to capacity...
...that any group winning 50.1% of the popular vote should receive 64% of the chamber seats, a clear working majority. At election time the Reds challenged so many ballots that the Demo-Christians fell just 55,000 votes short of earning the electoral bonus; the law itself proved so unpopular that it is widely known as the legge truffa (fraud...