Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Supremacy or Death. That was not what the settlers had wanted at all, and the constitution turned out to be a death blow to the government. Under a barrage of charges that it was soft on Africans, the United Party was swept out of office in elections the following year. A new party, built on a hard core of cattlemen, tobacco men and right-wing labor leaders, was on the rise; its platform was white supremacy or death, and its founder was Ian Smith...
...Department of State in the field, I enjoyed your Essay [Oct. 15]. But I was disturbed by your complimentary reference to Ambassador Attwood. Much more publicity of that nature, accurate as it is, could result in our losing him to a higher post. That would be a serious blow...
Erhard's amiable way of meeting the challenge was to let the pros blow off steam. Postponing decisions until the week before the Bundestag convened on Oct. 20 to re-elect him Chancellor, he took off for a holiday by the Tegernsee, leaving stage center in Bonn to former Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, who bosses the 49-man Bavarian branch of the C.D.U. known as the Christian Social Union. Strauss began announcing to reporters and anyone else who would listen, that Erhard must dump Foreign Minister Gerhard Schröder, a well-known "Atlanticist" who believes that Germany...
...Governor accused the G.O P candidate of Goldwaterism and "vampire politics," protested as a low blow his opponent's suggestion that he should defend Genovese before the family of a boy killed in Viet Nam. Campaigning in a chartered light plane, Dumont-who in fact opposed Goldwater's nomination in 1964-charged Hughes with the lowest, dirtiest, and most contemptible utterances." Said he: "I didn't know that $35,000 a year [the Governor's salary] meant so much...
...leaders of Brazil's anti-Communist revolution 19 months ago, but now he turned on the regime he had helped to power. Reason: in gubernatorial elections two weeks ago, Lacerda's ambitions to win the country's presidency in 1966 were dealt a severe blow when he could not even get his own man elected to succeed him in his home state of Guanabara. Lacerda then demanded that the elections be annulled. Castello Branco refused. Suddenly Lacerda started arguing for a new military coup...