Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaign, Republicans dubbed her "Spenderella" because she promised not to raise taxes at the same time that she pledged to expand social welfare programs. But Grasso campaigned largely against a highly unpopular utility rate increase. Once she had disclosed that consumers had been overcharged $19 million in one year because of a miscalculation and began to exploit that fact, Steele did not have a chance...
Fonda charged that the United States is creating a "massive police state" by supporting the "unpopular and undemocratic dictatorship" of South Vietnamese President Nguyen Thieu...
...demoralized and is losing on the battlefield. It is now apparent that the so called Republic of South Vietnam can no longer continue its pointless military campaign. Thieu has been forced to make several concessions to those who voice opposition to his war policy, including the ouster of several unpopular cabinet members and three of his top military commanders...
...will continue. Even if this struggle is remote from the people of the United States, we must not allow our government to increase or even continue its present aid to a regime that, by its very nature, demands war conditions and a police state to maintain an illegitimate and unpopular dictatorship...
Pack of Contenders. The Conservatives used to replace an unpopular leader behind the privacy of mahogany doors with a gentlemanly turn of the knife and a three-star brandy to stanch the wound. But Heath was the first leader chosen by a vote under the 1965 reform rules, and no one at the time bothered to determine how he could be ousted. "I'm afraid my system wasn't all that well thought out," said Humphrey Berkeley, who drew up the rules. "It allows someone like Ted Heath, if he's stubborn enough, to be a life...