Word: beholdenness
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...spoils could become political spoilers. With rising U.S. tension on the issue of civil rights, few appointive posts are more sensitive than those in the federal judiciary. That sensitivity was one of the factors in the appointment of Bobby Kennedy as U.S. Attorney General. As a tough political negotiator beholden to no Democratic faction, he might be able to placate both House Judiciary Committee Chairman Celler, an all-out liberal, and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman James Eastland, an archsegregationist from Mississippi, in the filling of the new federal judgeships...
...said nothing-but his policy in this field could hardly be tougher than the Eisenhower Administration's. In the labor area, Kennedy has promised to pass a minimum-wage bill raising hourly wages to at least $1.25. Most businessmen believe that Kennedy, while promising to be beholden to neither labor nor business, will not openly antagonize the business community, will prefer to win its cooperation rather than fight it. Kennedy realizes that the welfare of U.S. business, with its decision-making and spending powers, is essential to the health of the economy that he has promised to revitalize...
...nations added to their ranks, suddenly became the U.N.'s biggest "bloc" and the U.N. took a startled new look at itself. What it saw was very nearly a portrait of the world-a congress of white, brown, and black, each individual in his own way and many beholden...
...intention of delivering Guinea either to Western or Eastern influence," says Touré, proclaiming his creed to be "Pan-African neutralism." Even if his procedures owe more to Lenin than to Jefferson, those who know him best believe that 1) ambitious Sékou Touré intends to be beholden to no one, 2) his fellow-traveling companions, who made the journey to the U.S. with him, found the U.S. a much better place than it had seemed through Red-colored glasses...
...bill for his victory. Until last week's revolt, the army had served Kassem as a balance against the growing Communist influence in the streets. Now the army could no longer be fully trusted, and Kassem was more than before beholden to the Communists, whether he wanted to be or not. In the streets of Baghdad, Kassem was still plainly the hero of the hour...