Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Effort reports--the center of the controversy--have been unpopular among scientists since their inception. They require each scientist holding a government grant to state what percentage of his total working "effort" he spends each month on the project for which he receives support...
...advocated a program of "nuclear parity." Without committing himself, Clifford also supported such congressional pet projects -which McNamara opposed-as development of an advanced manned bomber to replace the B-52 and construction of a greatly expanded nuclear fleet of warships. He also expressed serious reservations about the politically unpopular plan once advocated by McNamara to merge the National Guard and the Army Reserves. Following his testimony, Clifford was unanimously endorsed by the committee, made up of twelve Democrats and six Republicans, and is expected to win Senate confirmation this week...
...Judy Lee Ziegler, 20, few of the folks in Allegany County, Md., doubted that he was guilty. After all, he knew Judy and had been seen walking along the same road that Judy had been driving on the murder night. What's more, he was a strange, unpopular kid and had been convicted of rape three years before. There was so much prejudice against him that his court-appointed attorney doubted that an impartial jury could be impaneled. Rather than risk it, he asked that his client be tried before two Allegany County circuit court judges...
...exuberance generated by their spectacular success on the Hill, the White people attempted, shortly after the January 1 inaugural, to get a replacement for Boston Police Commissioner Edmund L., McNamera. McNamera is not an unpopular police commissioner (indeed a telephone poll conducted on WHDH-TV's "The Big Question" revealed overwhelming popular support for McNamera). The closeness and familiarity with Boston that make him popular among his men and most Bostonians are the facts which his critics invoke when arguing for his removal. Some Bostonians--the ones who have White's ear--feel that a man a little bit more...
...case, with the prolonged, unpopular war in Vietnam and the anti-communist phobia latent in American hinterlands, legal and financial support for test cases is needed to quash this last-ditch try to bring back the good old days of Joe McCarthy...