Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party's chances of winning is the larger question for the nation: how the Republicans seek to win. They could attempt to capitalize on the electorate's fears and frustrations by promising the cheap and the quick: a smaller tax bite for the middle class and a bigger night stick for the ghetto. Or they could attempt the far more demanding mission of conducting what Pennsylvania Governor Raymond Shafer calls "the politics of realism"-of identifying the direction to be taken and setting the difficult course for the journey...
Oratory and Opera. Building on that foundation, Republicans hoped to make Miami Beach the prelude for even bigger victories. Fittingly, the man they selected to strike the theme for the convention by delivering its keynote speech was Washington's Dan Evans. The age of television demands a keynoter who is young, attractive and vigorous. Evans is the prototype of a class of pragmatic, nondoctrinaire, problem-solving Republicans who came to the forefront after the 1964 debacle. Before television, keynote speeches were all too often incredible and interminable. Historian Mark Sullivan once called them "a combination of oratory, grand opera...
...added that Governor Rockefeller spoke of a police force "largely Asian" while Dr. Radhakrishnan said, "Asian-African." Asia would thus be taking the initiative to settle an Asian question, and would be disposed to help keep the peace. But the bigger point is that Governor Rockefeller has made this plan a national and world issue. I congratulate him-a great and brave step. If the present negotiations in Paris should get into a jam, they might turn to this plan...
Even so, the minimal bill was almost certainly more than the House would have passed before Robert Kennedy's death. It will accomplish some useful purposes, such as banning over-the-counter sales of rifles, shotguns, and bigger weapons to most out-of-staters, those under 18, fugitives, mental defectives, felons and anyone under indictment for a crime...
...agents of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, the largest after Prudential, went on strike for higher commissions and bigger retirement and pension funds. At one point, a settlement seemed near. But that was before the strikers began to toss bricks through windows of Metropolitan's headquarters in Manhattan, throw knives around the cafeteria and generally terrorize nonunion agents...