Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...racial antagonisms and create instant converts to the Wallace banner. But he also received substantial support from Republican suburbs in his 1964 primary races, and Nixon's calculations ignore the possibility that middle-class suburbanites might desert the Republican nominee for Wallace almost as readily as blue-collar workers dump Johnson...
According to the investigator, Gary said he had been hitchhiking and Judy picked him up. She drove him to the local dump, a favorite petting spot, and made advances. After he tried but was unable to have intercourse, she jumped out of the car and began screaming. Gary then began slashing her and, according to his alleged confession, she smashed her head on some rocks. Police also pointed to bits of supporting circumstantial evidence. A folding linoleum knife was found near the body, and Gary had bought such a knife in a local store. Also, his version of what...
...will present anti-Johnson forces with an awkward dilemma. They will want to stress their unity with the nation's Negroes. But the primary concern of the Alabama and Mississippi Negroes coming to Chicago will not be to end the war or to dump Johnson. They will support Johnson, they will be repeating again and again that they support him, and they will be doing everything in their power to get inside the convention hall in order to cast ballots...
...Dump Johnson...
However his style of political persuasion is described, Lowenstein is now credited with being the prime mover in the Dump-Johnson-and-replace-him-with-McCarthy movement. He started it early last August while most of his liberal Democratic cohorts were either promoting General James M. Gavin or talking of starting a third party led by King, Galbraith or Gavin. The early September debacle at the National Conference for a New Politics in Chicago killed the third party movement. With declining hopes in the Republican Party and the total failure of the Draft Bobby Kennedy movement, Lowenstein's idea...