Word: demo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps one of the most indicative-and amusing-effects of American influence has been the infiltration of American English into other languages. Japanese sometimes sounds like Japlish: masukomi for mass communications, terebi for TV, demo for demonstration and the inevitable baseballisms pray bollu, storiku and hitto. Franglais permits a Frenchman to do le planning et research on le manpowerisation of a complexe industrielle before taking off for le weekend in le country. German now is splattered with such terms as discount house, shopping center, ready to wear and cash and carry. And the latest expression in Frankfurt ad agencies...
...contrast with the 1964 campaign, there is no bitter ideological division between the Republican rivals. Both know that to offset the Democrats' 3-to-2 edge over registered Republicans, the winner must have at least 90% of the G.O.P. vote and not less than 20% of the Demo cratic ballot to beat Brown...
Convention. The departure of Morrison, popular three-term Governor in a traditionally Republican state, opens the way for a gubernatorial bid by Demo cratic Lieutenant Governor Philip Sorensen, 32, younger brother of John...
...Vermonters can seldom be taken for granted. In last week's special election, Democrats not only failed to make the major gains they expected in the house; their strength even dropped a fraction to 23%. In the senate, Demo cratic membership fell from 43% to a mere 20%. Massachusetts-born Hoff, who was on a State Department tour of Europe and Asia for all but the last week of the campaign, called it a "horrendous defeat." Penny-wise Vermonters had plainly responded to G.O.P. National Committeewoman Consuelo Bailey's charge: "This Governor's been spending...
...Sato government!" bellowed the Zengakuren students, Socialist Party workers and Sohyo union members, as they marched past hordes of riot cops in blue plastic helmets with Plexiglas face shields. Then the drizzle gave way to a pelting downpour, and what had been billed as the boldest anti-government "demo" in five years sputtered out like a drenched fuse...