Word: buoying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...centered on becoming Secretary of State. But the situation had changed. After Wisconsin, the stormy issue of religion threatened to shake the Democratic boat (TIME, April 18), sink the two presidential aspirants whom Stevenson supporters might find acceptable-Massachusetts' Kennedy and Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey-and buoy up those whom they like least, Texas' Lyndon Johnson and Missouri's Stuart Symington. And Stevenson, who long ago had planned to be away during the Wisconsin battle, was unscarred and obviously available...