Word: come
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon has won the overwhelming support of the nation's press. By the end of last week, 483 daily papers with a total circulation of 20.7 million had come out for him editorially; this week, LIFE endorses him. Humphrey, by contrast, has been endorsed by 93 newspapers with a circulation of 3.9 million...
...through? Well, that was what we looked like in California. New York? Not even Bobby Kennedy could put that together. Now New York is a standoff. We're going to win it. We've had to get all the aunts and uncles and cousins to agree to come back and have a family reunion and family picture taken together...
Kingsley Hopkins Murphy climbed off a plane in Hartford and wearily wondered what perils awaited his boss, Hubert Humphrey, in Connecticut. Murphy had a week to "run the traps," as every advance man should, and his brain was abuzz with the axioms of his craft: "Make them come to you; get typists and a legman quick; be anonymous; don't spill news-dribble it out; stress unity; keep calm; avoid nonunion bands; don't make cameras shoot into the sun; be ready to pick up strays; beware of national committeewomen...
...cheddar cheese, saltine crackers, diet root beer, Canadian Club and soda, 'wine of the country,' usually ten bottles of beer." Most of all, Murphy dreaded the "dragon's tail effect"-that frightening phenomenon in which a mere twitch at the tail's base can be come a paroxysm by the time it reaches the tip. By lingering an hour over schedule in one place, the Humphrey cavalcade can make a shambles of a whole day's tight schedule...
...hell of a lot more" for all students, but to "shape the educational environment" by building alliances between teachers and the rest of the labor movement. "A lot of things we're trying to do for kids can't be done in the classroom. Kids who come to school without any breakfast aren't going to learn one damn thing. We do more for them through the civil rights movement and the labor movement by affecting the context of their lives." An active integrationist, Shanker was a charter member of CORE, and joined protests in Selma...