Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exasperation, seven committee Democrats have been plotting their revolt against the chairman since midsummer. When Powell got word of their plans, he denounced the uprising as a racist conspiracy, aiming his angrier invectives at Florida's Sam Gibbons, 46, a Democrat with an unimpaired liberal record who has had to assume responsibility for the antipoverty bill in Powell's absence...
Nobody had to. Dirksen got expected support from most Republicans and Southern Democrats, but he ran into a formidable obstacle in the form of North Carolina Democrat Sam Ervin, whose concern for the Constitution rivals Dirksen's passion for prayer. "For God's sake," bellowed Ervin, "and for freedom's sake, let us not vest arbitrary permission power in school boards." When the vote came, Dirksen never really had a prayer. Though he won a 49-to-37 majority, he fell nine short of the two-thirds margin required to amend the Constitution...
Percy had been labeled a long-odds underdog last winter when he resigned as board chairman of Bell & Howell to devote all his energies to the Senate race. His dynamic, articulate campaign since then had steadily propelled him ahead of aging Paul Douglas. The liberal Democrat's dignified but tired electioneering stirred little enthusiasm. His immovable stand in favor of open-housing legislation-a particularly explosive issue in Chicago-and his consistently pro-civil rights votes on Capitol Hill cost Douglas the support of many fearful whites. Against the advice of campaign aides, Percy has also come...
...later, a mighty chorus of "ayes" echoed through the House chamber. The "ditch" is a projected 120-mile waterway that will connect Lake Erie with the Ohio River at a cost estimated as high as $3 billion. The project has a flock of critics. But its sponsor is Ohio Democrat Mike Kirwan, 79, the Congressman responsible each year for doling out some $4 billion in pork-barrel projects to his colleagues, and most House members would sooner abandon Panama than damn Kirwan's canal...
...explaining the club's action, Ronka denied the accusations of another officer of the club who charged Tuesday that outside pressure from both the Jewish War Veterans and the local and state Young Democrat organizations prompted the decision...