Word: unpopularity
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...tragic and unnecessary were the bloodshed and violence on the Kent State University campus [May 18]. President Nixon alluded to this as an expected result of student violence. I believe he is partly right. It started with the violence of a nation pursuing an unjustified and unpopular war in Viet...
That instant of military glory unalloyed was the last in the nation's memory. The horror of Hiroshima and Nagasaki accompanied the defeat of Japan. Korea turned into an unpopular, slogging stale mate. Viet Nam has divided the nation and stained the military's proud escutcheon...
...appropriate criteria." Among those criteria, says Young, are the individual's knowledge, quality of preparation and teaching ability-plus such "attributes of character as objectivity in teaching and operating within the parameters of professional conduct." Factors that should have no bearing on appointments: "lawful party memberships, taking unpopular positions, and personal antipathy or repugnance...
Afro-Saxon Leaders. After three days of negotiations, the government agreed to sack an unpopular army commander, and the mutiny flickered out. Four persons were killed during the week; of the army's seven reported casualties, one had received a shot in the hand, another had sprained an ankle, and a third had suffered a case of "exhaustion and constipation...
...insist its members. It can, to be sure, still pin a Communist label on any group, but it cannot name individual members. In fact, the board has become a monument to futility-and to the courts' determination to defend the rights of all individuals, even those who are unpopular...