Word: unpopularity
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Althought unpopular with students as an assistant chemistry here, Eliot had attracted the attention of President James W. Walker 1814, for his administrative talents. Walker had Eliot draw up the agenda for corporation meetings and Henry James, in his autobiography of Eliot quotes Walker as having said often at meetings...
...immediate cause of the trouble was an unpopular government order extending Denmark's draft period from 12 to 18 months. Many young Danes resent and resist their tiny nation's undertaking to provide three divisions for NATO forces. Another cause was the widespread Danish belief that soldiering itself is an uncouth and unnecessary profession, ill-suited to a nation that has not waged war since 1864.* Item: last year a veteran sergeant major who offended his rookies by using "rude and indecent language" was beaten badly by ten of his men. From a court martial...
...chain-drinks Turkish coffee, talks cheerfully, optimistically and incessantly. One of Greece's chess masters, he plays a brilliant, passionate, impatient game. Two years ago he spoke hardly a word of English ; last week he rattled off a fine-sounding sentence: "We shall be obliged to take unpopular measures for the simple reason that American aid cannot go on forever and we must become self-sufficient...
...Britons, from their press, often think the U S is made up of "jukeboxes, gangsters and glistening bathing beauties." A false image is being projected," wrote London Sunday Observer Correspondent Alastair Buchan, "of an America where liberals are hounded with bell, book and candle and where people who hold unpopular opinions are afraid to open their mouths...
Another imminent problem is the tax with the most popular name and the most unpopular results: the excess-profits tax. The Government in one way or another has to advance billions to industry to make up for the new capital that is dried up by a tax that falls on an efficient expandable business. Humphrey, like most businessmen, is violently opposed to E.P.T., and would-on principle-love to drop it when it expires June 30. But the New Deal era has given "excess profits" such a magic sound that Humphrey will have to make the real meaning of E.P.T...