Word: unsound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paradox that the Conservative Party, which by definition is opposed to change, to risks of any sort, to anything "unsound," should elect as its leader Winston Churchill, the most daring and, in the word's best sense, most radical leader in the country. This paradox was consummated by a unanimous vote of the Party after the resignation fortnight ago of that composite of conservatism, Neville Chamberlain...
...States, One man has give this military aid to England and no one has made the effort to stop him." Does any sane American really want to stop him? Regardless of the fact that we obtained vital bases in return for those obsolete destroyers, can you really believe it unsound to try to bolster desperate England in the hope--even were it ten times as faint--of keeping war away from an appallingly unprepared America...
Princeton maintained that the present administration has failed to cure unemployment, and has brought instead the twin evils of unsound monetary policy and deficit spending...
Most of the college golfers have a very sound style, thanks to their Coaches, but there are many of them who played in bad form. A very unsound style frequently works well when the player is youthfully supple and resourceful...
...purchase plan† the natural price might be 10 to 15? per oz., which would permit the lowliest proletarian to own complete sets of sterling tableware. Finally he could stand pat on the wise remark of Michigan's Senator Prentiss Brown: "If we are going to follow an unsound policy, then let us confine it to our own citizens...