Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into the University. To settle the matter once and for all, the Overseers held what was known as "The Trial at the Harvard Club" and President Lowell himself appeared in the role of defense counsel. He took an unequivocal position in support of Chafee's right to espouse an unpopular cause, and the complaint was dropped...
...Leland Hayward) does a straight hack job in hit-or-miss fashion. In their first mystery farce, the authors of Life With Father and the producers of Arsenic and Old Lace never manage to make murder, or much of anything else, amusing. When the curtain goes up, a highly unpopular vice-snooper is already dead, and in due time a highly unperturbed audience finds out who killed him. But the mystery side of Remains To Be Seen can largely be ignored; indeed, the playwrights themselves set the example...
...situation in Argentina is untenable for Peron. Allende said. "A real revolt will undoubtedly come soon, and then the unpopular Peron will have only his secret police and cronies to side with him." Asked whether the leaders of this impending revolt would set themselves up as Peron-fashion dictators, Allende replied, "definitely...
...only and best answer for the present is the one given by the three professors: fight back. The scholars must go on teaching, arguing, and researching. Holders of presently unpopular views must maintain their advocacy regardless of the environment of fear. They must teach the country to see the awful structure we are now building up, so that we might begin pulling it down again--all the committees, investigations, and inquisitions--to let the air and light of freedom in once again...
William Stoughton Class of 1650, was a "prominent, wealthy and unpopular" leader in Massachusetts life during the later half of the seventeenth century. His grandiloquent sermons and the leading role he played in the witchcraft trials led a contemporary to describe him as a "pudding faced, sanctimonious, and unfeeling witch-hanger...