Word: dander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Democratic Dander. But the real shocker came in Vermont. There, unless a recount changes the result, a Democrat was elected Governor for the first time in 108 years. He was State Representative Philip H. Hoff, 38, who made a strong campaign plea for Vermonters to bring an end to decades of "one-party government." His opponent, Governor F. Ray Keyser, 35, was too conservative even for Vermont tastes. And Hoff was helped by an attractive family that campaigned enthusiastically for him-one of his four daughters actually stomped on Keyser's foot in a painful display of partisanship...
Tart Replies. In the Senate, Byrd's power is seldom exhibited before the galleries. Ordinarily, he is a poor speaker. But when his dander is up, his oratory can be blistering. His reply to criticism from Florida's Claude Pepper in 1946 is a Senate legend: "When I became a member of the Senate, a distinguished colleague said to me that it never paid to get into a contest with a skunk." When Hubert Humphrey, as a freshman Senator, had the temerity to call Byrd's Joint Committee on the Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures an example...
Fradkin got his inspiration through defeat; in 1957, running on a platform that called for a scholarship plan of some sort, he lost an election for membership on the Fall River school committee. His dander up, Fradkin began collaring patients, hounding civic groups, beleaguering storekeepers and factory workers for support for his scheme. A $1 contribution entitled individuals to a membership card in the Citizens' Scholarship Foundation, and civic organizations that gave $100 got the privilege of naming the scholarship and presenting it in public...