Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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King George III was as mad as a hatter, blind, doddering and virtually a prisoner in Windsor Castle. His son George, the Prince Regent, was fat, gross and so unpopular that he hardly dared show his face in public. When he did, he was booed. His adulteries were public knowledge, but his broad-beamed princess, Caroline, was also indiscreet. Soon, and quite openly, she was to take an Italian lover and stand a parliamentary trial for her conduct. London's streets were full of soldiers being demobbed, and the most popular man in England was Alexander I, Czar...
...implication of the Court's decision is that it may encourage many national, state, and local legislators to conjure up subversive control of bills of their own such as the Maryland Ober Law and its pending Massachusetts imitation. Another is that administrators may use it to bludgeon criticism and unpopular beliefs into silence, thus resurrecting the witch-hunt of the '20's complete with its smear and arbitrary methods. And yet another implication is that this act and its effects may become permanent even after the present tide of pressure, passion, and fear has receded...
Sprung Trap. Some of Wiley's fellow Republicans privately accused him of blundering; he had, they told favored newsmen, triggered a trap which they had set for Secretary of State Dean Acheson. The plan had been to make unpopular Dean Acheson the chief G.O.P. target, ask him pointed questions about his discussions with the President, then try to cite him for contempt if he refused to answer. Even if they couldn't make the charge stick, Republicans hoped to keep the case in the courts and before the public until...
...growing atmosphere of restricted thought and expression was found to be mostly self-censorship which took the forms of: 1. A reluctance to speak out on controversial issues in and out of class; 2. A reluctance to handle currently unpopular concepts even in classroom work where they may be part of the study program; 3. An unwillingness to join student political clubs; 4. Neglect of humanitarian causes because they may be suspect in the minds of politically unsophisticated officials...
...Gladwyn, Jebb, British delegate to the United Nations, yesterday denied that he called General Douglas MacArthur probably the most unpopular American in England today. He made the original statement at a meeting with the Harvard United Nations Council here Saturday...