Word: ev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...explosion was immediate. "A cheap and partisan trick," snapped Richard Nixon. Senate Republican Leader "Ev" Dirksen declared that Udall apparently wanted to become "Secretary of the Exterior and take over a domain in which he has no business." And President Kennedy, struggling to achieve a bipartisan atmosphere, said he was "strongly opposed to anyone within or without the Administration at tempting to shift the responsibility...
Although he died in 1855, the great Dan ish existentialist Soren Kierkegaard de scribed the effects of anxiety in terms that are strikingly apt today. He spoke of his "cowardly age," in which "one does ev erything possible...
...matters of principle, there was plenty of confusion. Senate Minority Leader Ev Dirksen noted that the Kennedy Administration had failed to propose a civil rights bill, promised to "unfurl" one of his own. Morton agreed that it would be a smart move, but House Minority Leader Charlie Halleck and Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater demurred. Said Goldwater, who has a greater following in the South than any other Republican: "We have literally bent over backwards to attract the Negro vote, but they don't vote for us." Lamented one G.O.P. leader: "We've got to find...
Rockin' around the Christmas tree At the Christmas party hop, Mistletoe hung where you can see Ev'ry couple tries to stop...
...ev'ry person if he's heard the story...