Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young, low-income earners, blacks, Jews, Southerners (though his own late polls showed some slippage there). Only the Catholic vote was in serious doubt. Ford, by contrast, had similarly gained a solid lead among independent voters, the college-educated, suburbanites, white-collar workers, professional and managerial types. Once that breakdown would have meant a Democratic victory; no longer. According to Harris, where the old coalition accounted for just over 60% of the potential voters when F.D.R. rode it to victory in 1936, it accounts for only 43% now; the pro-Ford groups have quadrupled from about...
...many citizens are determined to have it their way-preferably at government expense-that suggests a breakdown in followership. "There seems to be no disposition to follow leaders," said Bunting. "Clausewitz once said that the most dangerous situation in a military campaign was a thwarted offensive. We are living now in a time of thwarted offensive. I mean the offensive of mind, of intellect; it follows very largely from the arousals of expectations during the Kennedy Administration...
Brown comes to Harvard today strutting much the same stuff that made the team a contender last year. A tough defense, a solid quarterback and a talented wide receiver have brought the Bruins a 5-1 record thus far and a chance to make up for last season's breakdown...
...extended itself in the gesture recently granted respectability by the Vice President of the U.S. De Laurentiis broke up. Unfortunately, however, so did the giant arm-freezing, finger up, for a week. There were other delays. Once the mechanism began "bleeding" hydraulic fluid all over the stage. That breakdown cost two weeks...
...still comes as a surprise to learn that Dean was on the verge of writing the famous phony report ordered by Nixon in which the young counsel would show that no one at the White House was guilty of cover-up crimes. Dean's wife, who suffered a breakdown during the ordeal, objected. As Dean described the report he was to write, Mo had asked: "That's not true, though, is it" "No, it's not." "Then, John, you shouldn't write that report. That's not very smart." Recalls Dean, in two incriminating sentences...