Word: confronting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Louis Harris poll, in fact, showed that no less than 72% of the public support Johnson on the war and that 59% want to intensify it. Third, the Senators were anxious to shore up their own political flanks. In Idaho, Church is worried that he may confront a recall move sponsored by members of the John Birch Society. In Oregon, a recent poll indicates that Democrat Robert Duncan, an all-out advocate of the war who lost narrowly to Mark Hatfield in last year's Senate race, enjoys a 2-to-1 edge over Morse. Democrats Clark, Fulbright, McGovern...
...money, says Bill. "I found that I really love the game," he explained, "and that I want to test myself against the best." Bill's old coach Willem van Breda Kolff, 44, who engineered Princeton's basketball renaissance for five years, is also leaving to confront the best. Next season he will take over as coach of the lackluster Los Angeles Lakers, who won 36 while losing 45 this season...
...this is the source of Conyers' charisma in the eyes of many Negroes. They know that he feels that the Democratic party must confront the problems of the nation's disadvantaged with a massive and quick effort. They know that he thinks that many of the traditional supporters of past reform legislation -- like the unions in particular -- simply do not appreciate the magnitude of the task that confronts former New Dealers...
...noon, the Columbia Students for a Democratic Society sponsored an anti-war rally around the nearby sundial -- a traditional center of campus demonstrations. After an hour of speeches, the demonstrators marched to the dormitory to confront the recruiters...
...maintain its integrity and its identity as an independent force that cannot be turned off by Johnson. We believe that, for the first time since the bombing of the North began, we are at a point where, the anti-war movement could draw the line and confront itself and the American people with the consequences of further escalation. If we fail to do this now, no matter what kind of long-range projections we make, we lose an opportunity, essential to our future, to force people to give basic reconsideration to what they have been doing...