Word: confronted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fascinatingly confused as any 19th century brawl. Even before it starts, well over 1,000 delegates will have had their credentials challenged. Like masses of cool and hot air colliding in the upper atmosphere, the older party regulars and the new ambassadors of youth, blacks and females will confront one another with sometimes furiously different notions of how to run a convention and, for that matter, a political party. The party platform will be a special battleground, with the black congressional caucus, the National Women's Political Caucus and other groups demanding a voice. Defense spending, tax reform, amnesty...
...this more or less nonfiction book, Harrington illustrates his thesis with a number of pseudonymous melodramas (Joy, Hoaglund and the rest), but he has a difficult time in trying to figure out what we should do about "the outlaws [who] have arrived massively on our scene and now confront...
...residue of times gone by remains. Strung-out freaks panhandle, play music or sit and talk in front of Holyoke Center. Streethawkers confront passersby with Boston's two youth-oriented weeklies, The Phoenix and Boston After Dark. Tourists crowd the shops and streets and restaurants on weekends and sunny days...
...overawed by generals like some politicians who've never been in service." Yet he insists that his alternative national defense posture provides for basic U.S. security and that he would not shrink from using military force if necessary. "I'm not a pacifist," he says. "If we confront another Hitler or a clear threat to our national interests, I'd respond with power. It's a dangerous world, and some people only understand force...
...direct threat to the economic viability of the state of California." Scathingly, Humphrey tells nervous defense and aerospace workers that "a man should not seek the presidency at the expense of the jobs of the people of California." His supporters have dispatched "worried worker brigades" from Lockheed to confront McGovern. Humphrey also assails McGovern for a lack of leadership in civil rights and claims that his celebrated antiwar record is marred by repeated votes for Viet Nam appropriations. "We were both wrong," insists Humphrey...