Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peace marchers [April 21] present their cause and their country with a dilemma. They are citizens who must take an unpopular and seemingly unpatriotic stand; they are a minority who must dissent from the will of the majority. To blame this loyal, perceptive and somewhat vocal minority, however, for prolonging the war is nonsense. The dilemma of majority rule with minority rights is one that, fortunately, a democratic people must always face. Those of us who are opposed to the war in Viet Nam should abide by the will of the majority, but we should not forfeit our rights...
...soldiers never die . . ." Nor was this an Eisenhower, home from his triumphant crusade in Europe to accept the lustrous tributes of the nation's lawmakers. This was a commander whose battle is far from finished, on leave from his post to report on a divisive, hotly debated and unpopular war. He will never be treated as a demigod, as was the charismatic MacArthur, and he is not yet a hero, as was Ike when he returned from Europe in 1945. Yet from the moment when House Doorkeeper William ("Fishbait") Miller swept down the center aisle of the packed chamber...
...field day. Last week Premier Georges Pompidou told a hand-picked group of Deputies that the Assembly will be asked to approve government-by-decree for the next six months. Seeking extraordinary powers to rule temporarily by decree has long been a favorite method of French governments for stuffing unpopular measures down parliamentary throats, and De Gaulle himself has used it no less than seven times since he took power...
...recently, he has even managed, with a blend of geniality and tact, to get along with a state legislature normally suspicious of higher education. No longer. Last week he seemed on the verge of resignation after an angry struggle with legislators over the university's right to air unpopular opinions...
...boost its dollar aid to poor countries through the World Bank only if an increased share of the bank's loans was used to buy U.S. products. Moreover, Washington insisted that the U.S. share of such "soft loan" largesse be trimmed from its present 42% to 40%. However unpopular abroad, such restrictions would minimize the strain foreign aid places on the U.S. payments deficit...