Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...office, with mixed success. In Lexington, Ky., Harry N. Sykes, a bowling alley operator and onetime basketball player for the Harlem Globetrotters, became the first Negro ever elected to the city commission. In Essex County (Newark), N.J., a militant Negro-Puerto Rican slate ran as third-party "New Frontier Democrats," failed to win any offices but trimmed votes enough from regular Democratic candidates to help several underdog Republicans get elected. (The Democrats had a bad day generally in New Jersey: the Republicans won control of both houses of the state legislature for the first time since...
...state frontier is a state frontier," Khrushchev replied. "And every state, whenever its borders are violated, shoots the violators...
...christen an idea, jazz musicians invent slang, admen and politicans go for novelty-promising labels ("New Fab," "New Frontier"), art critics pile on prefixes and suffixes ("post-abstractionism"). But it is theology, slicing its concepts fine, that seems to need new lingo most and best knows how to create it. Plain words, knighted with a capital letter, take on reverent meanings; Greek and German syllables, in numbers from two to six, are joined and sent out to intimidate the outsider...
...best known professors at Harvard, Harris has been a member of the Faculty since 1922. Considered one of the intellectual leaders of the New Frontier, he was economic advisor to Senator Kennedy in 1960 and became a member of the President's Task Force on the Economy...
...late 1780s, every influential western leader was "publicly proclaiming his loss of faith in the national government." Separatist plans were rife: one scheme set up the state of Franklin, complete with constitution and elected governor. In Washington's phrase, "the touch of a feather" might have turned the frontier to independence, or even to an alliance with Great Britain...