Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beliefs . . . such investigations cannot be confined to the physical world. The acknowledged fact that moral, social and political progress have not kept pace with mastery of the physical world shows the need for more intensified research, fresh insights . . . The scholar's mission requires the study and examination of unpopular ideas, of ideas considered abhorrent and even dangerous . . . Timidity must not lead the scholar to stand silent when he ought to speak . . . In matters of conscience and when he has truth to proclaim the scholar has no obligation to be silent in the face of popular disapproval...
Ever since he took over as Secretary of Agriculture, Ezra Taft Benson has been preaching more free enterprise and less Government subsidy-a doctrine that is unpopular among some farmers. This week Ezra Benson brought his message to the American Dairy Association convention in Chicago. In so doing, he put his head boldly into the cow's mouth; a vociferous part of the dairy industry thinks it desperately needs price supports. Benson's case was that price supports are responsible for the industry's present ills and that the dairymen would never solve their problems as long...
...Prime Minister Viliam Siroky, boss of the Slovak party, and, as leader of the party secretariat, another party hack, Antonin Novotny. Since none of the three had any real stature, this seemed to be a stopgap arrangement. It was also a rebuff to Gottwald's ruthless, ambitious, unpopular son-in-law, Alexei Cepicka, Defense Minister who failed to move up an inch. But perhaps Cepicka was a sleeper-he might get a boost later...
...Hungry Mobs. Last month a religious group known as the Ahraris, influenced by fanatic mullahs, demanded that the government declare half a million members of the Ahmadiya sect to be non-Moslems. The Ahmadiyas are a close-knit and unpopular group, followers of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, who at the turn of the century declared himself a Nabi, or prophet of Allah. There was politics in the mullahs' demands, because Pakistan's Foreign Minister, able, bearded Sir Mohammed Zafrullah Khan, is an Ahmadiya.* The Ahraris' mullahs demanded his removal. When the government refused, the mullahs began stirring...
Referendum. In Holly Springs, Miss., Police Chief Jimmie Warren explained why the streets are lined with unused marking meters: "A good salesman sold he city the meters, but they are very unpopular. By common consent, nobody puts a coin in and nobody gets a ticket...