Word: democing
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...single incumbent Republican Senator, Representative or Governor lost. Jubilant party leaders reveled in the political revolution -- on the one hand openly stretching out an arm of cooperation to the President, on the other eagerly preparing to flex their invigorated conservative muscles. Following the devastating-to-Democ rats results, a humbled and reflective President gladly took up the offer of cooperation on issues like welfare reform and streamlining government but promised to stand firm and fight on matters of "conviction" like education, gun control and jobs...
...first President. To the boom of a naval cannonade and amid a torchlight procession and fireworks, 54-year-old Diem spoke from the steps of Saigon's Independence Palace, flanked by his Cabinet, a battery of generals, two Catholic bishops and two Buddhist prelates. Said the new President: "Democ racy is not a group of texts and laws . . . It is essentially a state of mind, a way of living with the utmost respect toward every human being, ourselves as well as our neighbors...
...little education, commercial exploitation - is long. They have loudly demanded autonomy; and, agitating for it, Croat Leader Vladimir Matchek, dubbed the "Croatian Gandhi" for his passive resistance campaigns, has led runs on Serb banks, organized farmers' strikes and riots to hamstring the Government. Though nominally exponents of peasant-democ racy, in recent years some Croats began to drop hints that an approach to Germany might be the only way to wring concessions from the Serb Government. Such hints reminded the Yugoslav Government all too vividly of the actions last March of the Slovaks, who finally appealed...
...earnest speaker, are familiar with his soft, silky tones, his face like that of a large tabby cat with hurt feelings. Radical among philosophers, a philosopher among radicals, Kallen has taught unhappily at Princeton, less unhappily at the University of Wisconsin. Some of his books: Why Religion, Culture & Democ racy in the United States, Frontiers of Hope, Indecency and the Seven Arts...
...third place, though the Sophomore Class deserves credit for its intention in authorizing class buttons, it should not deceive itself into thinking that they will effectually democratize it. There is a saying that nothing is democratic unless it democs, and experience has shown that class buttons among Seniors seldom democ. That is, Seniors as a rule do not make acquaintances on the strength of their buttons alone. The buttons serve only one purpose well, and that is of uniting the class by the sort of vague ties of tradition. And just as it is too late for Seniors...
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