Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prolonging a strike. Local Six, for its part, wants to regain its position as top banana among newspaper unions. The I.T.U.'s former position of leadership is now occupied by the Newspaper Guild, and one way to regain that leadership, Powers reasons, is to win a sensational and unpopular strike...
...four years as Governor, Edmondson managed to become about as unpopular a chief executive as Oklahoma ever had. On taking office, he kept his campaign promise to end Oklahoma's half-century of Prohibition; that enraged the state's substantial dry minority. He set up a withholding system for state income tax and a merit system for state employees, pushed for legislative reapportionment and a dilution of the powers of county commissioners. Such reforms did not endear him to the regular Democratic organization...
...certain that A.I.D. has never been so unpopular. When the Congress refused to swallow the President's request for long-term authority to borrow from the Treasury two years ago, it was just beginning to bend a sympathetic ear to Otto Passman's beefy hostility to the entire program. Last year Capitol Hill celebrated Mr. Passman's eighth year as chairman of the House subcommittee by cutting the Administration's request from $4.95 billion to $3.93 billion. Jealous of their prerogative of scrutinizing aid funds, both House and Senate remained deeply suspicious about the President's intention to transform...
...defeated candidate for the Republican nomination for attorney-general noted that "if we can't centralize our finances, we can't solve our problems. I admit bossism is unpopular, but I'm afraid it may be necessary...
...characterized this fall's elections "as something of a holding action," and observed that "the man who puts out an unpopular truth is often behind when the votes are counted...