Word: featly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...England had long been strongholds of Yankee conservatism; yet Johnson knocked them off consistently. Verona, Me., (pop. 435) went for Johnson 139 to 55-almost an exact reversal of its 1960 margin for Richard Nixon. Of Connecticut's 169 towns, Johnson won all but eleven -a feat unmatched even by Roosevelt. While conservative on economic and domestic matters, New Englanders tend to be international-minded-and Goldwater's trigger-happy image hurt him there. So did his confused stance on social security, particularly since it was so publicly aired by Fellow Republican Nelson Rockefeller in the New Hampshire...
...fallout from Peking's nuclear firecracker wafted toward the West, the political chain reaction had only begun. Taking full propaganda advantage of its feat, Red China unctuously dispatched messages to heads of state, among them President Johnson, urging a summit conference to discuss nuclear disarmament. U.N. Secretary-General U Thant took up the call, suggested a meeting perhaps next year. The U.S. State Department had already rejected Red China's ploy, calling it "a sucker proposal" since it made no mention of inspection. If the Chinese are really concerned about all this, said the U.S., they can always...
...probably the most thoroughly anticipated explosion in history. For years Western experts had been predicting that the Chinese would perform the feat before long. Two weeks ago, Secretary of State Dean Rusk said so again. Last week, with consummate timing, less than a day after Nikita Khrushchev's downfall was announced, the Chinese finally did it. From a steel tower in the desert of western Sinkiang, north of the Himalayas, they exploded a crude nuclear device...
None of these feats have yet been accomplished by the lagging U.S. space program. Yet for all the novelty the flight involved, from the moment the tall, silver-sided rocket with its over sized new space capsule left the launching pad in Kazakhstan, all seemed to go well. The commander radioed that all three passengers were in good shape, that all equipment was working normally. Soon the smiling faces of two of the cosmonauts appeared on live TV. While orbiting over the U.S., where their craft was tracked by U.S. radars, they radioed good wishes "to the industrious American people...
...legislation is unquestioned. His sense of the possible is remarkably true since he never flinched in his support of the two major bills, Civil Rights and the Tax Cut. His ability to conciliate when necessary enabled him to settle a threatened national rail strike without compulsory arbitration, a feat which had eluded countless negotiators. And his sense of direction may be inferred from the anti-poverty program, which was a creative means of binding together and passing disparate pieces of needed legislation...