Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Irishmen believed that such a shaky coalition could long endure, yet Dev's stern refusal to ease their lot by deficit spending or careless borrowing made them blind to any other risk. "We knew we would be unpopular for increasing taxation and removing [food] subsidies," said Dev, "but we either had to do our duty or not, and we did our duty...
...issue raised by the Congressional investigators was stated eloquently when, speaking as President of the Board of Overseers, he charged the new President of this University to pursue "with unremitting vigilance, inquiry into fundamental truths in every field of knowledge, no matter where the trail leads, no matter how unpopular the result." This, and not the cowardly counsel of suspicion and fear, is American doctrine
...follow his own hunches in pursuing his special studies is not the whim of some modern educator," he said. "It is not primarily a question of 'freedom'. A scholar or scientist has an obligation to investigate and report new ideas in his field, even when his conclusions may be unpopular among the general public or among his own colleagues," Pusey declared...
Having haggled over everything from the art of doctoring pictures to the merits of telephone transcripts, the Greatest Show on TV is moving into its third week. Crawling through points of order, irrelevancies, and grandstand speeches, the McCarthy-Army controversy has become unpopular both to a large share of its semi-captive audience and some of the principles involved. A growing sentiment, represented by Senator McCarthy when he called it "a fight over a private in the Army," teamed with his frequent allusions to "razors near America's jugular vein" have resulted in considerable pressure to cut short the hearings...
Connoisseurs of political intrigue which means nearly every coffee drinker in the Athens cafés) had another explanation: Papagos was fortifying his position in case of an open struggle with Spyros Markezinis, the ex-Minister of Economic Planning. Markezinis, whose ruthless, unpopular pruning had done much to restore Greece to economic health, had asked for the post of Vice Premier; Papagos had turned him down (TIME, April 12). The coffee house connoisseurs could not quite explain why these two men - who in their disparate ways had done so much for their country - should now be at loggerheads...