Word: unpopularly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., the talk that the President might step aside took on an uncomfortably bipartisan ring. A cloud of astonishingly bitter anti-Johnson sentiments arose from the 18 Democratic chief executives present. Blaming Johnson for defeats in November, the Governors castigated him for pressing certain unpopular and unwanted Great Society programs on the public, for displaying an insulting lack of interest in local campaigns and for letting the National Democratic Committee disintegrate into a useless organization. "Some of the people," said Illinois Governor Otto Kerner, "voted against the Democrats because of the image that President Johnson portrays...
...result of last week's decision, Bond will get $2,000 in lost pay from the last session, can also expect $5,200 in pay and expenses from the upcoming session. By doggedly challenging the hostile sentiment of the legislature, Bond has guaranteed the basic right of unpopular legislators, both Negro and white. He will not be alone in the Georgia legislature: ten other Negroes were elected last month, and none of them has been challenged...
Puny Love & Pot. It is true enough, said the psychiatrist, that today's youth are remarkably ostentatious about some of their more intimate activities. "They get to know each other sexually before they become close emotionally or intellectually. In the past, it was the unpopular girl who used sexuality for a bait as a means of competing with her more attractive rivals. Today, even the most attractive and popular girls indulge in a variety of sexual practices with little emotional involvement...
Such scornful sentiments have helped to make shaggy, unorthodox Robert Maxwell, 43, Britain's most unpopular publisher - among other publishers. By acting on his beliefs, Maxwell has not only become a multimillionaire, but also in 15 years has lifted his Pergamon Press Ltd. from obscurity to No. 1 rank as a publisher of scientific and technical books (600 last year) and trade journals (120, from The Archives of Oral Biology to Problems of Cybernetics...
Since the productions Chapman has directed at the Loeb have generally been excellent, his undergraduate exclusion policy has been an unpopular one -- at least among undergraduates...