Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present, China is actively supporting the Viet Minh rebel forces with men and weapons, so that the French are waging a losing war to maintain the unpopular Bao Dai regime...
Boldest critic was a tall, husky, 35-year-old wartime partisan fighter named Branko Copic, a philosophy student turned writer. Copic, in a series of shattering satires that began last August in the Communist literary organ Knjizevne No-vine (Literary Gazette), scored direct hits on the most unpopular people of Yugoslavia-the Communist bureaucrats and their wives who lived off what fat there was in the hungry land. Copic's articles were reinforced by the cartoons of a popular artist who calls himself "Dzumhur" (Jester...
...over by the allied governments. After that, Isbrandtsen began to buy and charter ships on his own hook, and brought his two sons into business with him. Now he intends to go right on running his ships wherever he wants, although he realizes that this policy has made him unpopular. Says he: "You are almost a scoundrel to be in business these days...
...professors were more inclined to the Right than their left-wing students. Young Progressives and the John Reed Club have already declared that South Korea is just as responsible as the Reds are, and that "America is trying to use force to back up an unpopular regime...
...same time nobody--certainly nobody in the Kremlin--seemed willing to make the sacrifices necessary to stop it. The war had little of the crusade in it. The UN called it a "police action" and in common with most police actions it was tough, and sometimes brutal, and often unpopular...