Word: bedfellows
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...striking confirmation of the old adage, Udall was soon joined in his pro-issues crusade by strange bedfellow Scoop Jackson. In fact, virtually the entire Democratic establishment united on the "issues issue" condemning Carter either as an opportunistic crowd-pleaser who possessed no convictions regarding the particular issues raised by his competitors, or as a cunning political operator who cynically and deliberately obscured his stands so as not to alienate potential supporters...
...Gene McCarthy and hopes the decision will help them too. Later in the week, a decision is handed down in favor of McCarthy but does not apply directly to the AIP. Nonetheless, Illinois delegates and others have nothing but kind words for the third party efforts of their strange bedfellow, that pied piper...
...statistic-laden speeches calculated to convey the impression of an issue-oriented thinker. His major campaign issue will likely be inflation, which is running at 5.45% so far this year. Now Barzel's attack has been immensely strengthened by Schiller. A brilliant economist but always a prickly political bedfellow, Schiller was Brandt's "election locomotive" in 1969. Now he is steaming at the Chancellor from the opposite direction...
...more than a dozen at any one time. The rewards were low-about $5 to $25 per sketch for piecework-and the risks were high. One chill night, Harper's Artist Theodore R. Davis, sharing his threadbare blanket with a Union soldier, waked at dawn to find his bedfellow dead beside him. "It was plain.'' wrote Davis afterward, ''that but for the intervention of his head the bullet would have gone through my own." To oblige Major General George G. Meade, Harper's Special Artist Alfred R. Waud scaled a tree to draw...
...America, the only chief of government who was publicly committed to come so far was the Dominican Republic's Generalissimo Trujillo, who is making a show of turning toward Russia out of fury at the U.S. But odds were that Trujillo's bitter enemy and presumptive "neutralist" bedfellow, Fidel Castro, would also be on hand...