Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Obviously, the Kremlin would not have substituted this unpopular policy for the popular economic argument if it had not put military considerations first. The Kremlin has realized far more clearly than the West that in Asia and in Europe the military stakes are far more important than the economic stakes. A prosperous area will not necessarily be a defensible area. An area which the West resolutely and intelligently prepares for defense can, in time, be made into a prosperous area...
...speak of the fact that DDT has become ineffective against mosquitoes [TIME, Dec. 5]. Last summer while I was in Crete, a friend of mine said: "Yes, we have flies, and they have been Mithridated." Mithridates was King of Pontus just before the birth of Christ. He was quite unpopular, and made himself immune to poison by taking small and gradually increasing doses [until] he could take without risk something like 26 or 27 poisons...
...East command of General Douglas MacArthur, U.S. correspondents who have written dispatches critical of the commander or of occupation policies have soon learned what it is like to be unpopular. Some got the deep freeze from Mac-Arthur's staff. Others who left Tokyo on visits, or assignments in the Far East, had to wait weeks and slice through endless snarls of red tape before they were allowed to return to Japan (TIME...