Word: unpopularity
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...forgo this year's interest on their postwar loans to Britain ($81.6 million to the U.S., $22.2 million to Canada), and had been informed by the U.S. Treasury that Congress would almost certainly consent. In Britain's current anti-American mood this was a humiliating and unpopular move, but it was one that would keep a precious $104 million available for the defense of the pound...
...factories, as party control has slipped, so has production. Unpopular bosses have been roughly ridden out of town in wheelbarrows, and there have been some near lynchings. The mood of the country has not been improved by the 36,000 prisoners released from U.B. prisons and the 16,000 Poles repatriated from Soviet slave-labor camps, each with a bitter story of Soviet brutality. To these must be added the serious preachments of the score of Polish correspondents who were in Budapest during the Soviet siege and, unable to publish their stories in their own newspapers for fear of offending...
...thirty on numerous Saturdays. The vested interest which defends this imposition, the House Dance Committee, could do well to make their affairs sufficiently attractive so that a non-captive group might patronize them. If House Dances are popular, they could make money on a voluntary basis. If they are unpopular but are still deemed worthy of existence, perhaps some Dance Studio or finishing school could subsidize them. As it is the rule makes them intolerably crowded and drives those who object to hordes of dancers in search of more expensive entertainment...
...Pulaski County. Ark., says that about half of the people on the county's free-food rolls would be removed if they were investigated, but there are not enough county workers to check on them. Taxpayers-and politicians-have learned that opposition to the program is extremely unpopular. The program has other faults and inequalities; e.g., a Mississippi family of four is eligible only if its income is under $100 a month, but a Michigan family of four can get free supplies if its income is under $265 a month...
...family moved from one cheap apartment to another, the parents always squabbling, often on the verge of breaking up. Maria remembers her childhood with bitterness: "My sister was slim and beautiful and friendly, and my mother always preferred her. I was the ugly duckling, fat and clumsy and unpopular. It is a cruel thing to make a child feel ugly and unwanted." Forced to wear heavy spectacles for her myopic eyes, little Maria avoided schoolmates, ate compulsively (sometimes a whole pound of cheese at breakfast). "I hated school, I hated everybody. I got fatter and fatter." But when...