Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...predominantly Negro wards. But among white voters Tate did poorly, barely managed to split even with Republican James T. McDermott, a political unknown. In heavily Italian South Philadelphia, scene of some of the city's worst racial clashes over Negro integration thrusts in housing and jobs, Democrat Tate lost two of the three wards that voted hugely for Dilworth in 1959 and John Kennedy...
Since Philadelphia gave Kennedy a 331,500-vote plurality in 1960, enough to swing the whole state for him, U.S. Representative William Green, boss of the city's well-oiled Democratic machine, professes not to be worried about next time. Another Democrat whistled a graver tune: "Pennsylvania is no sure thing for Kennedy. We've got troubles...
Border-State Breathtaker. In Kentucky, Democrat Edward T. Breathitt, 38, won the governorship by a breathless 13,000 votes out of 880,000 cast. A protégé of outgoing Democratic Governor Bert Combs, Breathitt supported Combs's controversial, sweeping anti-discrimination executive order by promising to put civil rights before the state legislature. His Republican opponent, Louie B. Nunn, 39, called the order "dictatorial," vowed to rescind it. Breathitt's pluralities fell sharply in such forget-it-we're-Democrats places as western Kentucky's First Congressional District, the old Kentucky home...
...Democrat Johnson lambasted Phillips as being no Republican at all (Republican Phillips was recently a Democrat), while Phillips accused Johnson of being, of all things, a Kennedy Democrat. It wasn't a very elevating dialogue, but Mississippi may become a healthier place if it does in time become a two-party state...
...Dolci's announcement that he would fast for ten days rallied support from leading Italian intellectuals, would-be intellectuals and influential admirers all over the world. After Dolci had gone nine days without food in a flyblown little room off the Piazza Matrice, the town square, a Christian Democrat bigwig from Palermo announced to the crowds that the government would start building the dam in November 1964 and, if it proved impractical, promised that the money would be spent on other needed projects in the area. It seemed a long time to wait, but then waiting...