Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Manifestly we are in for a liberal swing. Let us have no doubt of that. -New York Times...
...pundits studied the tea leaves of the 1958 elections and forecast the national future. If there was a consensus, it was that the nation has veered to the left after six years of steering down the middle of the road. Yet closer, subsurface examination of the election results raises doubt about that consensus; indeed there is strong evidence that the American voter intended to cast his ballot for moderation...
...traditional Republican heartland between the Mississippi and the Rockies, Republicans lost eight House seats, two Senate places, at least two governorships (Nebraska is still in doubt). High on the list of causes: the political unpopularity of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. Taking over in 1953, Benson inherited a farm-policy mess that saw prices slumping badly while the Government poured billions into the farm economy. Trying to reverse the policy of farm government-by-handout, Benson was blamed when the agricultural recession continued. By this year, when the farm economy dramatically improved (TIME, May 12), it was too late...
Thus the race was mainly a question of which eight had the most power and drive through the water. There was no doubt as to the answer as Putnam's shell won by over three-quarters of a length...
...multitude of problems may be, an observer has suggested, "to try to make the country pure by whacking it with the flat of his broadsword." His expressed eagerness to settle the Kashmir dispute must be set against the intransigence of his recent statements on the subject, which, though no doubt appealing to many of his countrymen, won't solve anything. General Ayub has been a conservative man. Though he may have to produce some radical programs, the political inexperience of his advisors will prove no help to him in making them stick. Already he has found himself obliged to return...