Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that President Nixon last week made three announcements to demonstrate his concern about agriculture's current agonies: he 1) accepted the resignation of his pleasant but unaggressive Secretary of Agriculture Clifford Hardin; 2) replaced him with a combative former Eisenhower agriculture aide, Earl Butz; and 3) dropped his unpopular plan to abolish the Department of Agriculture as part of a broad Cabinet reorganization...
...Ezra Taft Benson did for President Eisenhower, and Orville Freeman for both Kennedy and Johnson. A former head of Purdue's School of Agriculture and currently dean of continuing education at Purdue, Butz was an assistant secretary to Benson from 1954 to 1957. Since Benson was highly unpopular among farmers, that makes Butz an odd choice for the job, and Democrats quickly seized the opening. Democratic National Chairman Larry O'Brien attacked Butz as "one of the chief architects of the Benson policies that forced hundreds of thousands of farmers off the land." Yet Butz served notice that...
Recently, the language requirement has become increasingly unpopular. Dwight Bolinger coordinator of Language Instruction, cites portions of letters received by his tutors from distressed undergraduates...
Bombs are still falling, people are still dying, but already nobody cares. Visitors to Vietnam this summer repot that Thieu seems to have the country under control. When American troops and even planes are no longer needed, when only American money is required to back up a corrupt and unpopular government, when no American blood is demanded to dominate a small, oppressed nation--when the American war has ended and only American repression remains, who will remember...
This theme of "impersonal warfare" was stressed throughout the first day of hearings. Eric Herter, VVAW coordinator for the three-day investigation, said in his opening remarks that "We have been participants in the new forms of war which are to replace the unpopular struggle of infantry patrol against guerilla band. Replace it with a greater atrocity than a hundred My Lais--the systematic destruction of thousands of innocent persons, of entire cultures by an automated electronic and mechanical death machine whose killing will be one-sided, unseen, and universal...