Word: bandwagoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gone better for the Republicans, even the street disturbances which injected a smattering of spontaneity into an otherwise preordained scenario. For three days, Republican leaders had been praising Richard Nixon as a man of warmth, moderation and sensibility. They had called out to discontent Democrats to join the Nixon bandwagon. Most of all, they had created a strained comparison between the clean-cut, exuberant, All-American kids tagged Young Voters for the President and the long-haired, dungareed McGovernites who had filled Miami Beach six weeks before...
...that is, Perón is not outmaneuvered by the present government of President Alejandro Lanusse. Perón is trying to get his election bandwagon rolling from Madrid, without returning to Argentina for the campaign. "I can lead just as well from here," he says -and also remain above the current political chaos and economic setbacks in Buenos Aires. Then, too, there is the entirely reasonable fear that he might be assassinated if he returned home...
...some 40 to 50 black delegates, even though they were reluctant for the moment to desert Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm before she had a chance at least to be nominated. If McGovern "nickeled and dimed" his way to Miami Beach, picking up delegates anxious to join a winner's bandwagon, he could turn the convention balloting into a mere ratification ceremony...
...hopes of both Humphrey and Muskie may have been tinged with a lingering disbelief. Here was plain, slow-spoken George McGovern, minister's son, prairie populist, leading the armies of commitment and ideological chic. However ruggedly colorless the driver, his bandwagon rolled flamboyantly on, bright with the fresh-faced young and the movie stars and intellectuals who had found their new political vehicle. Behind a superbly organized and financed army of volunteers, McGovern had all but won the delegate battle through the primaries and state conventions. It was a neat touch that he was playing by the party reform...
EVEN the Freshman Council jumped on the bandwagon of those investigating HSA. A freshman poll taken in March revealed wide scale dissatisfaction with HSA linen and HSA refrigerators. Of 188 students subscribing to the linen service, 63 per cent said they were dissatisfied. They complained about inconvenient hours at the depots, the price of the linen, short sheets and dirty linen. Of 119 freshmen renting HSA refrigerators, 74 per cent said they were dissatisfied and cited the expense, the low quality and poor service as their main complaints...