Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...corn gets as high as an elephant's eye, Oklahomans can thank their Senate candidates: Republican Charles ("Bud") Wilkinson, 48, and Democrat Fred Harris...
...this makes things tough for Democrat Harris. He doesn't really dare attack Folk Hero Wilkinson personally. But he is a much more dynamic speaker, and he makes full use of his rural Oklahoma accent. He likes to talk to the countryfolk about "Momma" and "muh Dad," ("By gosh," said a farmer recently, "he calls his momma 'Momma.' I'd vote fer him fer no other reason than that!"), and he tosses in many an "Aw shucks" kind of reference to Oklahoma's revered Will Rogers. He claims that he is a close personal friend...
Across the Continent, Democratic and Republican enthusiasts were hard at work to garner the votes of more than half a million U.S. citizens, either civilian residents abroad or members of the armed forces. Despite the red tape of obtaining absentee ballots, English-born, American-educated (Yale '29) Democrat Anthony Hyde in London believes that Europe might cast 100,000 votes, adding, "Just think, almost as many as the state of Alaska...
Heckling Colonel. The top Democrat in Germany, Businessman John Ryan, last week invaded Munich's annual Oktoberfest and, surrounded by eight U.S. students brandishing Johnson's picture, delivered a rousing get-out-the-vote speech in front of a tent advertising Löwenbräu beer. He was repeatedly interrupted by a Goldwater heckler in the front row who, Ryan snorts, "must have been a colonel." The Johnson organization in Britain is the largest in Europe, and, with such guest speakers as Actors Anthony Quinn and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Comedian Victor Borge and Novelist Eugene Burdick...
...liveliest battle is being waged in France, where Democrat Alfred Davidson and Republican Evan Galbraith have signed up for a debate at the American Art Students League. Johnson headquarters are in a handsome, red-carpeted apartment on the Place Vendóme, where Chairman Davidson has received more inquiries about who gets the apartment after the campaign is over than anything else. The Johnson committee in Paris includes Novelists James Baldwin, Mary McCarthy and James Jones, as well as lawyers, journalists, businessmen and the wives of OECD and UNESCO officials...