Word: birching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conservatives who had clung to Harry Byrd's Democratic party found no home in the party of Godwin and Kellam. Last July, thy created the Virginia Conservative Party and attracted more than 70,000 votes for their candidate, William Story, an assistant school superintendent (since retired) and John Birch Society member. Last week they announced their own ticket for the Senate and urged their supporters to stay out of the Democratic primary...
...Republican paper, the Times does not automatically endorse Republican candidates, and maintains a moderate stance. It has supported the nuclear test ban treaty, the sale of surplus grain to Russia, the 1964 Civil Rights Act. It was one of the first papers to attack the John Birch Society in an editorial written by Otis...
...public officials." Others have stuck to a stricter interpretation. General Edwin A. Walker, for example, was clearly a public figure when he turned up at the University of Mississippi's integration riots in 1962; he had earned his share of notoriety by indoctrinating his troops with John Birch literature. But when he appeared on campus he was not acting in any official capacity, and he has won two big libel suits against the A.P. which sent out stories accusing him of helping to incite the riots...
Since he founded the John Birch Society nearly ten years ago, Robert Welch has displayed one of the most fertile imaginations in American politics. Though his fascinating statement that Dwight Eisenhower had consciously served the "Communist conspiracy for all his adult life" will probably remain its foremost figment, his mind has lost none of its youthful fancy with advancing years...
...Senate lobby entrance, sand for blotting letters on every desk, quill pens available on demand. The Senate roster also still retains a collection of first names not to be found in any other body and surpassing even the cast of characters in a 19th century novel-Ross, Birch, Caleb, Gordon, Norris, Hiram, Bourke, Lister, Spessard, Roman, Gale, Thruston, Claiborne, Winston, Leverett, Strom, Harrison. This assemblage is still magisterial in form if not in substance, still flinging its sounding periods into the stillness of the Congressional Record or the empty seats of the chamber, less magnificent in its manners and less...