Word: fight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more bitterly disputed challenge, Georgia was ordered-and refused-to split its 43 convention votes between the regular delegations and a liberal, mostly pro-McCarthy slate. Georgia's Governor Lester Maddox, a declared candidate for the presidency, refused to accept the ruling and vowed to fight. Ironically, Maddox is likely to wind up without a seat and, possibly, without a single vote for his candidacy...
...social justice, a belief that federal cash would solve the nation's re maining problems. Yet a decade that began with a quest for moral grandeur has bogged down in the effort to keep society from exploding. Gone is the idea that a big power can safely fight a limited war against a small power. Instead, North Viet Nam forced the U.S. to spend $85 billion and lose moral prestige in much of the world. At home, vast New Dealish programs have failed to cure poverty; civil rights legislation has left Negroes more frustrated than ever...
This Bohemian land for which we fight...
...elections in South Viet Nam, Truong Dinh Dzu was a "peace candidate" for President, and he advocated a coalition government with the Communists. He came in second, after President Nguyen Van Thieu. Later he was arrested, charged with "actions which weakened the will of the people to fight against the Communists," and last month was sentenced to five years in prison. Last week Dzu's lovely daughter Monique Dinh Dzu, 22, a teaching aide at U.C.L.A., arrived in Chicago with an appeal for the Democratic Convention to condemn that ac tion. In a press conference at Senator Eugene McCarthy...
...wheedles. He stares ferretlike down his long nose, droning in a voice that sounds like a cross between a buzz saw and Bronx sneer. "Did you take a dive in the Clay fight?" he demands of Son ny Listen. Or as Muhammad Ali launches into his pitch for Muslimism, Cosell cuts in sharply: "Awright, we've been through that...