Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them. Shortly after Khrushchev's latest blast, Johnson took to the Senate floor. "Premier Khrushchev has launched a verbal attack upon our President which reached new heights of vituperation," he cried. "The incident underscores the fact that the nation has a pressing need for unity. None of us, Democrat or Republican, is going to knuckle under to arrogance...
...Limb. In the fast-changing political climate, Adlai Stevenson was the Democrat who seemed farthest out on a limb. The first to attack the Administration for its international blunders (he spoke out even before Ike had returned from the exploded summit), Stevenson had followed through with the harshest, most persistent criticism. "The effectiveness for leadership of the present Administration in Washington has been impaired if not destroyed," he told the Textile Workers convention in Chicago. "We must make it plain that peace and disarmament are the paramount goals of our foreign policy . . . Why was total disarmament proposed last fall...
...editors of the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain announced their unanimous blessing of Lyndon Johnson as "the ablest and strongest" candidate for the Democratic nomination, reserved decision on a Republican choice "until a later day when, and if, a contest develops." The ultraconservative Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader also gave Johnson a curt nod as its favorite Democrat. And Long Island's Newsday, one of the first U.S. dailies to come out for Adlai Stevenson in 1956, was early again in 1960-plumping for a Stevenson-Kennedy ticket...
Although he was born and raised a Republican, Conrad's personal enthusiasms are presently those of an Adlai Stevenson Democrat. He voted for Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, has since made Ike appear as a progressively older and near-senile sort. Admonished by his editors, Conrad replies: "I consulted a doctor. He said that it's perfectly logical for a man's appearance to change that way as he grows older." Besides, says Conrad, "the way I draw him, he is perfectly recognizable." Conrad can make Republican Richard Nixon look ridiculous without making him a Herblock subspecies. Similarly...
...floor of the U.S. Senate last week, the Republican minority leader rose in partisan wrath. "Well-placed, well-timed torpedo!" cried Illinois' Senator Everett Dirksen, hotly declaring that Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson had helped Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev wreck the summit conference by presenting Khrushchev with the thought that he could ignore Ike and deal better with the next U.S. President...