Word: bipartisan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...choice to represent the Queen in Canada is Daniel Roland Michener, 66, a former Conservative Member of Parliament and onetime Speaker of the House whose latest post has been that of Canada's High Commissioner (ambassador) to India. As Governor General, mustachioed Michener will provide a fitting bipartisan representation in Canada's highest official councils during the centennial year...
...stand-pat government, the state's general assembly concluded its most productive, innovative session in memory. As a result, Annapolis-which once was proudly dubbed the Athens of America, but is better known today as Crabtown, after the Chesapeake crustaceans for which it is famed-fairly steamed with bipartisan mutual admiration...
...vote of the full House membership flagrantly disregarded the recommendations of a bipartisan committee chosen to investigate the numerous charges against Powell. The committee's proposals were severe -- Powell was to be censured, deprived of his seniority, fined $40,000, but seated. Three-hundred-seven congressmen didn't think that sufficient. Their ranks included, predictably, almost every representative from the South...
...directed the members to leave wives and tuxedos at home-the committee wrote a compelling, detailed report on what was needed to revive the prostrate continent. Above all, it was Herter's support and advocacy, along with Arthur Vandenberg's in the Senate, that forged the bipartisan coalition without which the Marshall Plan could never have become U.S. policy...
Then, at a year-end meeting of the nation's Governors at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., the talk that the President might step aside took on an uncomfortably bipartisan ring. A cloud of astonishingly bitter anti-Johnson sentiments arose from the 18 Democratic chief executives present. Blaming Johnson for defeats in November, the Governors castigated him for pressing certain unpopular and unwanted Great Society programs on the public, for displaying an insulting lack of interest in local campaigns and for letting the National Democratic Committee disintegrate into a useless organization. "Some of the people," said Illinois Governor Otto...