Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Orville passed out to housewives in his campaigning ("Here's a bill," said Orville. "It's customary to pay these to hold . . . jobs."), and then he had the chief make his whole department hose down the streets one morning at 3 a.m.; this made the chief so unpopular with the firemen that he had to quit. When the Dearborn Press turned against the mayor, Publisher William Klamser's personal property assessment was jacked...
Secretary of State Dean Acheson had persuaded the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, against the advice of General MacArthur, that the U.S. should not intervene in Formosa. He advanced the remarkable argument that if Russia had its way in Asia, the Communists would eventually become highly unpopular among Asian people and the U.S. would gain popularity for its nice-mannered nonintervention...
Senator Johnson shelved his unpopular bill when moviemen promised stricter regulations. Last week, at a meeting in Manhattan, a chastened Motion Picture Association of America announced that it had added a new section to its advertising code of ethics: "No text or illustration shall be used which capitalizes, directly or by implication, upon misconduct of a person connected with a motion picture thus advertised...
...returning French began negotiations with the Viet Minh leader. There were polite hints that Bao Dai must go-he was too "unpopular." Bao abdicated, and Ho was in the saddle...
...personal life," he keeps repeating, "is nobody's business but my own." His passion for privacy is one of the things that has made him unpopular with gossip-hungry sportwriters and fans. It has also helped conceal an extremely generous nature. On the road he is known to waiters and bellhops as a "buck-tipper" and a soft touch. He divided $1,000 of his 1946 World Series check among the clubhouse helpers. He sends his mother upwards of $7,000 a year, likes to visit shut-in children in hospitals, provided there are no reporters around...