Word: beholdenness
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Averell Harriman felt just the opposite. Himself a dedicated liberal, Harriman also felt beholden to New York's Liberal Party for the 264,000 votes that it gave him in his 11,000 win in 1954. The Liberal Party's candidate, and Harriman's, was onetime (1950-53) Air Force Secretary Thomas K. Finletter, able lawyer and an articulate man on the platform, but untried at the polls...
...seized weapons shed any light on the dozens of unsolved murders in Caxias. Nevertheless, Lott's re-emergence as constable of the realm, playing power politics without a by-your-leave from President Kubitschek, stirred uneasy fears of army dominance. Kubitschek, whose declining popularity makes him ever more beholden to Lott, conferred quickly with his War Minister but was noncommittal on the raid...
...scenes, and in the romantic ones she is light enough to ride the champagne splashes of emotion as if she were going over Niagara in a barrel. Spencer Tracy has one wonderful slapstick scene, and Gig Young does very well with a comic style for which he is much beholden to William Holden. But the real star of the show is Emmy. What redblooded moviegoing male will be able to resist the seductive lisp with which she murmurs pocketa. and ever so tenderly, queep? Indeed, what husband will not yearn for a female he can shut up, simply...
...Angeles, and (according to McClellan committee testimony) about $500,000 to defeat a right-to-work referendum in Washington State last year. With the notable exception of Washington's ex-Republican Governor Arthur Langlie (who began ringing alarms on Beck 20 years ago), most successful Northwestern politicians are beholden to Dave Beck. In 1946 Washington's Democratic Governor Mon Wallgren appointed Beck to the board of regents of the University of Washington. And in 1950, Dave Beck, who had never completed high school, became president of the board...
...only hope of a government with so narrow a base is that on matters of foreign policy it could pick up center-right votes and on domestic issues it could pick up Communist votes. This is known as the pendulum theory: getting support from the Communists without becoming beholden to them...