Word: fightingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SECOND REBELLION, by James McCague. A vivid account of how at least 1,200 people died and entire blocks of Manhattan were devastated during the 1863 antidraft riots by Irish immigrants who refused to fight in the Civil...
...matter of political tactics rather than conviction. "I felt then and I feel now," said the transcript, "that conditions are different in different parts of the country." But he wanted the issue "out of our sight" so as not to divide the party and risk a platform fight. The Southerners also remembered Nixon's criticism of Johnson's Supreme Court appointments. While Nixon did not quarrel with Abe Fortas' designation on personal grounds, the Southerners who did looked kindly on Nixon's position...
...bottom fifth of the alphabetical listing, the fight was really over. After West Virginia, Nixon had 650, and Wisconsin's 30, won in that state's primary, broke through the magic number to make it 680. Wyoming added its twelve, for a first-ballot total of 692, compared with 277 for Rockefeller, 182 for Reagan and 182 sprinkled elsewhere. It was even less of a race than it seemed. Nixon had reserve votes in several favorite-son delegations that he could have called upon if necessary. Minnesota Congressman Ancher Nelsen, one of the nine whips working the floor for Nixon...
...case in association with a local lawyer. After appearing four times without objection, he was suddenly arrested and charged with practicing without a license. Another lawyer took over the defense, and Duncan was found guilty because he touched a white boy on the arm while breaking up a threatened fight. The U.S. Supreme Court eventually reversed the conviction. Meanwhile, Sobol decided to fight his own case and went to federal court to get his trial stopped...
Unwanted Role. Never has a price roll-up been so eagerly declared a price rollback-not, anyway, since the Administration joined the steel fight of 1966, which followed much the same script. There was the same hero, U.S. Steel and its chairman, Roger Blough, who undercut by roughly 50% the price increases posted by the same villain, Bethlehem and its chairman, Edmund Martin. And there was the same Lyndon Johnson, who declared himself pleased with the denouement...