Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McCarthy is so weak and unpopular ass you claim, why is he a menace? . . .First you bring him to "menace" proportions to distract us from the fact there were Reds in the Government, and then try to pooh pooh him away when this purpose has been accomplished...
...hundred thousand Colombians paraded in Bogotá last week to honor their new President, Lieut. General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, who exactly a month before had overthrown the unpopular regime of Laureano Gómez. The five-hour parade was extraordinary: instead of marching, the people rode in 1,500 buses, 2,300 taxis and 3,000 trucks (thus paralyzing normal transportation in the capital and for miles around). Beaming down from the balcony of the presidential palace, Rojas could see that the buses and taxis were arranged by reds, yellows and blues to form enormous Colombian flags. Bands played...
...Unpopular War. The department every French politician has in mind, but has not yet dared meddle with, is defense. France's annual military expenditure accounts for about 37% of the budget. Of this amount nearly half, including a half-billion-dollar contribution from the U.S., drains away in the war in Indo-China. If that unpopular war, now in its seventh year, could be brought to a close, France's economic problem might be solved. More than that, the country would be in better shape to play its part in the European Defense Community: with more troops...
...public interest for publishers and librarians to make available the widest diversity of views and expressions, including those which are unorthodox or unpopular with the majority...
...more lurid struggle was going on. John Randolph, pain-ridden, drink-ridden, drug-ridden, and yet the clearest head in Congress, was fighting for local rights against the anti-conservative growth of central power. John C. Calhoun, quenching his own burning ambition, was busy on his unpopular formulation of minority rights against "the tyranny of majorities." Nathaniel Hawthorne was throwing his almost obsessive consciousness of sin into the bland and smiling face of the growing optimism...