Word: backlash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same token, it is regrettable that commentators felt it necessary to label every conservative candidate who won a "right-winger," a "segregationist" or a profiteer from "white backlash." Newsmen cannot grasp the fact that we are not all liberals with Socialistic tendencies like themselves, but just plain conservatives who still believe in people doing for themselves...
Rare Coalition. Neither of the issues that many observers considered pivotal ?the "white backlash" and Viet Nam ?had a profound effect on voting patterns. Of 25 Congressmen threatened by the backlash, according to a Congressional Quarterly survey, 17 emerged as winners, including Ohio's Republican William McCulloch, who played a major role in getting the 1964 Civil Rights Bill through the House...
...Scheer a lot of free television coverage. Suddenly cameraman -- even from William Knowland's conservative Oakland Tribune -- were following him everywhere. "Some of my Ramparts friends told me to cool the 'Black Power' stuff if I wanted to win, but I insisted there really wasn't any white backlash in the District...
...physical confrontation" of McNamara in back of Quincy House seems to have provoked a "courtesy backlash" here at Harvard. As one who was himself present, let me try to state the minority position...
Cultural Leftover. If anything could kill the look on campus, of course, it would be the news that adults are doing it too. West German Playboy Gunter Sachs, it was noted, married Brigitte Bardot in Las Vegas last summer with his socks off, and already there are signs of backlash. "Socklessness is a cultural leftover," fumes one Princetonian. Sock sales are even rising in some areas. Still, as the first snowstorms swirled across the Midwest last week the purists were standing fast. "If I could get a pair of lined desert boots," said one, thinking onward in Wisconsin, "maybe...