Word: birching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Three of our constant companions," wrote Martin, were "Fatigue, Hunger and Cold"; men ate birch bark, old shoes, pet dogs. "We kept a continual Lent as faithfully as ever any of the most rigorous of the Roman Catholics did and, depend upon it, we were sufficiently mortified." Yet given a small ration of beef and flour and a sack of straw, Martin and his colleagues "felt as happy as any other pigs that were no better off than ourselves." Such wit eased Martin's suffering, but he also had a sharp eye for the ironic moment or the dramatic...
...meeting of the Young Republican Club two weeks ago, for example, Nixon called for an anti-John Birch Society resolution; he was frankly and unapologetically rebuffed. Having spent many years in the more moderate climate of Washington, Nixon may over-estimate the Society's un-attractiveness to his fellow-Californians; but the contempt the young conservatives showed for the wishes of their party's titular leader indicates more than that there are a lot of Birchsymps among them...
Certainly organizations such as the Birch Society are strong in the State. California, the home of all kinds of moral and intellectual extremists (health-food-addicts, Rosicrucians, nudists and so on), harbors an enormous political lunatic fringe as well. It should be remembered that the Society first received national publicity when it was disclosed that its members included several California congressmen and the publisher of the right-wing Los Angeles Times (now the city's only morning newspaper). And an article published late last year in the Nation reported that the city's regular Republican machine was heavily infiltrated with...
...Nixon's opponents in the primary will be an extreme rightist (though not a Birch member) named Joseph C. Shell, now a Los Angeles Assemblyman. Shell is far from the stereotype of rabid radical--he is an attractive ex-fullback at U.S.C., still young, still blond--and he is well-financed since he married an oilman's daughter...
...California, Republicans have no effective state organization, take their ideological differences seriously, and tend to feud like Democrats. Last week Dick Nixon was censured by Los Angeles Young Republicans for his demand that Republicans resign from the ultraconservative John Birch Society. In trying to defeat Democratic Governor Pat Brown, Nixon must build his own organization, win votes from thousands of registered Democrats. But, like Incumbent Republican Senator Tom Kuchel, he is given a better-than-even chance...