Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...support from numerous dissidents who had sworn after the Chicago convention that they would never vote for Humphrey. As the campaign wore on, they evolved a sort of tentative sympathy and affection for the Vice President that was only sharpened by their accumulating distaste for Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew. In the last month of the campaign, former Mc-Carthy workers, especially those old enough to recall Humphrey's earlier, fiery days in the Senate, began soliciting support and wearing H.H.H. buttons. They even became intolerant of McCarthyites who refused to join them. Some question remained of how badly...
...that show, the 120-member band formed the word BANG as the announcer presented the "Spiro T. Agnew award for distinguished achievement" to Pope Paul "for his contribution to the population explosion"--and the band played "With a Little Bit of Luck...
...Hampton helps us," Lowenstein said Tuesday afternoon, sipping a Coke in a luncheonette. "Hampton helps, like Nixon helps and Agnew helps. Republicans are really useful for helping Democrats...
...being a drama of contemporary racial strife. The setting is a ghetto grocery store in pre-riot Newark. The characters refer to black people as "blacks" and white people as "honkies." Still, I have my doubts as to whether Hoye actually knows any more about the ghetto than Spiro Agnew. His one-act play is not about black power or slum despair or even law and order as much as he would like us to believe it is. Rather, it is the story of a simple white bigot whose son rejects him and then sets out to destroy...
Enter the Tribune. Just when the Agnew furor had some Democrats smacking their lips, the ardently Republican Chicago Tribune jumped on Humphrey. Its Washington Bureau Chief, Walter Trohan, reported that Humphrey and his wife Muriel had received the land for their lakeside home in Waverly, Minn., as a gift from a "wealthy patron of the Democratic Party." Inescapable in the newspaper's story was the innuendo that Humphrey had been given the land in return for services rendered to a man in trouble with the Government...