Word: contentedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Masterly Performance. While Agnew and Nixon's Cabinet circuit riders were spreading a tough evangelical line from a multitude of pulpits, Nixon himself -contented with public response to his Viet Nam speech and buoyed by pro-Administration demonstrations-stuck with gentler preaching to the converted. On the 51st anniversary...
While most journalists and observer's have contented themselves with pointing out the pacifity of the Washington Mobilization, making only passing references to a few "rowdies" or crazy militants who rioted outside the Justice Department, the significance of these militants' actions should not be overlooked.
Although the Civil Rights Organization began to apply more and more pressure and grew stronger and stronger, a split was developing within it. Some of the CRO people insisted that equal civil rights was all that they wanted, others began to think in terms of toppling the whole Ulster regime...
So strong was the feeling in the Senate, however, that the Administration contented itself with mere announcement of opposition. A watered-down Republican substitute never aroused much enthusiasm, and liberals and conservatives alike united to assert the power and independence of the Senate against the Executive.
In his newfound success, McKuen has been called banal; he has also been called the best contemporary songwriter in the U.S. Some put him down as the greatest put-on since Tiny Tim; others insist that he is the only American chansonnier. If being a loner rules out success and...