Word: doves
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ohio last fall, a two million dollar base bought Republican Senatorial candidate William Saxbe the campaign services of Market Opinion Research, MOR and Sexbe "saturated" the state, with the help of a party machine almost twenty years in power, and narrowly beat a liberal dove candidate named John Gilligan...
...those who followed the Democratic Convention in Chicago saw him and heard him. Gilligan informally chaired the Convention group that drafted the "peace plank," and he led the dove coalition on the convention floor. His job was to mediate between the Kennedy and McCarthy partisans--Sorenson, Goodwin, O'Donnell, and others...
...team had come in on the uninspired end of a 53-38 score. But why this sudden interest in basketball for an old football fan? It turns out that one of G.W.'s intramural squads has christened itself "the Fulbrights"-complete with red shirts emblazoned with a white dove on the front-and J. William was there to cheer the boys on. After all, he reasoned, "If I got up at 5 a.m. to see the President leave, why shouldn't I show up here...
...mittee stood at 19 members (twelve Democrats, seven Republicans), McGee was the next Democrat in line for membership. However, the reduction left room only for those Democrats already seated. Thus before McCarthy resigned, McGee seemed to be shut out. This could have been what Chairman William Fulbright, a leading dove, had intended when he pushed for the reduction, although his stated reason was to improve the efficiency of an un-wieldly committee. Perhaps no one was more amazed than McGee himself, who blurted: "I'm flabbergasted...
...rated the honor simply on the basis of one remarkable performance against the Philadelphia Flyers earlier this season. After scoring one goal in the first period, he netted two more in the second period to turn a hat trick for the first time in his N.H.L. career. "I dove into the net for that puck to save it as a memento," he recalls. As it happened, it was a slightly premature gesture. In the remaining minutes, Red slammed home three more goals to become the first N.H.L. player in 24 years to score six times in a single game...