Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wolverine. In Ann Arbor, University of Michigan coeds went on a food strike, listed eleven complaints-ten charging greasy food, unpopular dishes, bad cooking, etc., the eleventh complaining because there were no second helpings...
...longtime Parisian Gaullist last week. "The least we can say is that we are surprised and hurt," wailed the National Federation of Veteran Prisoners of War. Charles de Gaulle, by his actions last week, dramatically refuted those critics who say that he uses high-sounding rhetoric to avoid taking unpopular action...
...Southern Baptist Convention, attempted in addition to smooth the inevitable course of integration; in mid-1957 he brought President Eisenhower and Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus together at Newport, R.I. in an attempt to forestall the Little Rock crisis. Among Little Rock white supremacists, Brooks Hays, 60, has been unpopular ever since. Last week they kicked him out of Congress with a write-in campaign covertly sponsored by Orval Faubus...
...extension," Prime Minister Kishi announced tartly, "is now an accomplished fact." But at week's end, disturbed by the public unrest over his police legislation, Kishi took the unprecedented step of consulting his three elderly living predecessors. Their advice: quit trying to jam through the unpopular police bill...
From avuncular World Bank President Eugene Black of the U.S. came a final reminder to the have-nots of the world that they could expect little sympathy-or help-if they failed to perform the unpleasant and unpopular duty of putting their own financial houses in order, or if they tried an "appeal to sentiment or exploitation of a strategic position in the international political lineup." But Black urged action by the haves on the "imaginative and constructive" U.S. proposal for Ida. "There is a real need," said Black-and the delegates had to look no farther than the side...