Word: unpopularity
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...legislative manners of Japanese lawmakers are often a source of astonishment to their Western counterparts: in the course of debate, insults are shouted, desks banged, and the presiding officer may be subjected to physical assault for an unpopular ruling. This week, as 550 legislators from all over the world and their wives gathered in Tokyo for a meeting of the international Inter-Parliamentary Union, Foreign Office protocol experts were tactfully urging Japanese lawmakers to study a specially prepared booklet called Collection on Etiquette, intended to familiarize them with the inscrutable manners and mores of the West. Some pointers on mingling...
...Reader Mewhinney is not the first to confuse Nell with Louise, who served as the King's Catholic mistress. When an anti-Catholic mob in Oxford mistook Nell for her unpopular rival, the plain-speaking actress stuck her head out the carriage window and said, "Pray, good people, be civil; I am the Protestant whore...
...leaders from 14 states. Kennedy said he had come to Des Moines to learn from the farmers, but he took advantage of the occasion to trundle out his first farm speech of the campaign. It was aimed not so much at farmers' problems as at Richard Nixon and unpopular Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, Nixon's heaviest political burden in the Farm Belt. Said Kennedy: "Their candidate, they say, has experience in the executive branch. He has participated in its decisions. He has shared in its responsibilities. He has been educated in its programs. When it comes...
Nearly all the 155 adults chaperoning these proceedings believed that they saw a rebirth of Latin back home. In Charleston, S. Dak.. Latin was so unpopular six years ago that it was almost dropped; now one school has 88 Latin students. Arkansas has 69 Latin teachers, could use 32 more. In missile-minding Cheyenne, Wyo., sons of the Air Force's Atlas tenders are stoutly conjugating mittere ("to send"). But apparently, only a few youngsters mull over the ablative absolute out of sheer joy. Said Teacher Belle Gould of Henderson (Texas) High School last week: "Some...
...story skyscrapers stood empty and silent. The deserted streets were patrolled by mutineers on foot or in Jeeps. From hunting for "invading Russians," the soldiers turned to hunting down their former officers-particularly those who were Flemings (i.e., Belgians whose language is related to Dutch), who have always been unpopular with the Congolese for their fancied relation to the South African Boers, whose language is derived from Dutch. Invading the main hotels along the Boulevard Albert, the soldiers drove out U.S. and British newsmen at bayonet point and confined U.N. Representative Ralph Bunche to his room...