Word: unpopularities
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...time, Swaffield has been hauled off the field on a stretcher, swung at by an aroused coach and hooted by hundreds of thousands of football partisans when he stepped off unpopular penalties. Despite all this, Swaffield would not swap his Saturday-afternoon workouts for anything he can think of. "It's a lot of fun," he says. "I like the game. I like the boys. I like the atmosphere. I find it a relaxation from the office...
...opinion may be unpopular," wrote Columnist-Senator Margaret Chase Smith, "but I am very tired of seeing car after car with slain deer strapped to the fenders and hoods ... I don't see how a hunter can level his gun against the sad eyes of a deer and shoot to kill. What sport is there in this...
...present, China is actively supporting the Viet Minh rebel forces with men and weapons, so that the French are waging a losing war to maintain the unpopular Bao Dai regime...
Boldest critic was a tall, husky, 35-year-old wartime partisan fighter named Branko Copic, a philosophy student turned writer. Copic, in a series of shattering satires that began last August in the Communist literary organ Knjizevne No-vine (Literary Gazette), scored direct hits on the most unpopular people of Yugoslavia-the Communist bureaucrats and their wives who lived off what fat there was in the hungry land. Copic's articles were reinforced by the cartoons of a popular artist who calls himself "Dzumhur" (Jester...
...over by the allied governments. After that, Isbrandtsen began to buy and charter ships on his own hook, and brought his two sons into business with him. Now he intends to go right on running his ships wherever he wants, although he realizes that this policy has made him unpopular. Says he: "You are almost a scoundrel to be in business these days...