Word: foe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some people just cannot swallow the idea of coercing a worker to join a union-and one of them is Senate Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen. A formidable foe when his dander is up, Dirksen recently went to the White House and, in a now famous confrontation, told Johnson that out of intense personal conviction he was immovably opposed to repeal of 14(b). Indeed, said Ev, he hoped to keep the Senate from voting on the bill through "extended debate"-a Dirksenism for filibuster. "My God," said the President, "you wouldn't do that to me." Replied...
...city council primary, a supporter of urban renewal, Christopher A. Ianella, was followed closely by an out-spoken foe, Mrs. Katherine Craven...
...enabling Nasser to leave on schedule for his current visit to the Soviet Union. The announcement was made in the chandeliered main hall of the palace, where the marble floor is carpeted in green-the color of hope. Once the agreement was signed, tall, sinewy Feisal embraced his old foe and new-found friend and kissed Nasser on both cheeks...
Stabbed Queen. Most opposition to the treaty stems from the belief that its provisions-especially on fishing rights-favor Japanese industry. Apart from that, all Korean youths have been brought up on a propaganda and textbook diet of hatred for Japan as Korea's traditional foe. Moved more by emotional chauvinism than by politics, the students still bitterly remember heroine Queen Min, who was stabbed to death by Japanese assassins in 1895-a film portraying her sad fate has been playing to packed moviehouses...
...denounced the revolution as "undemocratic." Many Brazilians assumed that the government would trump up a charge to disqualify him. Instead, a state electoral court found a perfectly legal reason: Lott had thoughtlessly transferred his voting registration to another state. The opposition parties now seem set to pick a friendlier foe...