Word: unpopularly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lyndon Johnson's 200 million countrymen, the year produced an unprecedented crop of complaints, based largely on the two great crises that came into confluence. Abroad, there was the war in Viet Nam, possibly the most unpopular conflict in the nation's history and the largest ever waged without specific congressional consent. At home, the Negro, more aware than ever of the distance he has yet to travel toward full citizenship, vented his impatience in riots that rent 70 cities in a summer of bloodshed and pillage. The U.S. was vexed as well by violence in the streets, rising costs...
...reply, Califano said the Selective Service System "is not an instrument to repress and punish unpopular views." He said the system does not "vest in draft boards the judicial role in determining the legality of individual conduct...
Rudolph began the much-damned new pattern as a temporary measure last summer, to allow construction of the Cambridge St. underpass. The rotary is unpopular with residents of streets bordering on the Common, and the Council has told the traffic director to revert to the former pattern as soon as possible...
...unpopular but efficient performance in his final year as Secretary of Defense of the U.S., during which he successfully perpetrated his "own" war, I nominate Robert S. McNamara...
...used to being alone, and I don't think I changed my views about the war because they were unpopular." But, Sloan remembers, his friends patiently prodded him into rethinking the issues. "Then I read Mary McCarthy and found that her reporting was accurate and analysis valid. I kept asking myself why I hadn't seen through the situation earlier...