Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Collins deplored the beatings and said a law abiding city cannot tolerate violence on its streets against those who embrace unpopular causes without undermining our very society." The mayor refrained, however, from direct criticism of the police, although he assured the four MCCR members verbally that there would be better protection in the future...
...audience of high school and college editors in New York, the Vice President answered the rote objection that the Saigon government is unstable, undemocratic and unpopular. "For many centuries," explained Old Teacher Humphrey, "the Vietnamese people lived under mandarin rule. Then came generations of colonial domination followed by 25 years of almost constant warfare. This is stony soil for democracy to grow in." He noted by contrast that there had been little protest from liberals over U.S. support for Greece during its struggle against Communist insurgency in the late 1940s. Yet, he pointed out, Athens' governmental gyrations in that...
...Columnist Cyrus L. Sulzberger. He took a firm stand against "flabbiness in Viet Nam" and reminded all concerned that the U.S. "inherited the position of global superpower in 1945 and cannot escape its obligations." He recalled that "the 1947 Greek commitment under the Truman Doctrine was also originally unpopular. Many naive Americans and their newspapers then preferred the Communist rebels to the Athens government." And in the tone of a man delivering an urgent warning to his friends, he wrote: "If we crawl out of Viet Nam now, it is obvious that Southeast Asia right down to Australia will join...
...Viet Nam war is neither popular nor unpopular with most Americans. It is simply confusing. Nobody is better aware of that than Lyndon Johnson. Though the pollsters tell him that a substantial majority of Americans approve of his policies, he knows that he can rely only on a thin crust of active support; and a vocal opposition is constantly gnawing away at that crust. In large measure, the fault is his own, for he has never definitively explained the reasons, risks and alternatives involved in the American commitment to Viet Nam's struggle for independence...
...prospect of future calls running well above 30,000 a month, some thousands will soon be called to serve who might previously have postponed or entirely escaped military service. Across the U.S., young men are once more watching their local mailboxes anxiously for the nation's most unpopular piece of unsolicited mail, that elongated postcard with the blank space after "class" filled...