Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elected by a minority. This fact has persuaded him that he must maneuver and enlarge his hold on the middle ground rather than take dramatic positions on one side or the other. From all appearances, he is following the politics of zigzag, giving way on one point to gain on another. His surrender on the Knowles appointment, for instance, was motivated in part by the need for conservative votes on the surtax and the anti-ballistic-missile system. There was much talk last week that he was moving to the right. Most of it was premature. When...
...Bourgeoise Family. Max, of course, feels more aggressed against than aggressing and claims that the staff have been blinded to the revolution by visions of their own gain. "I can't tell you how many times I've fed these people," he says. "For four years they've been coming to my house and my wife has been feeding them. She sends food to the office all the time. It's been like a family. Now they've got this bourgeois idea-they want to make the best possible deal...
...seem has been literally told to death. Not so long ago, the armband had brief life in this town as the visible emblem of a curious sort of self-election. When the disciple in Jesus make their first appearance, wearing their armbands, both they and our strike that was gain a little in dignity...
...took the Negroes of Macon County a three-year campaign, which cost $20,000, to finally gain control of the ASCS board in their 85 per cent black county. That was last year. It's the only one like it in the state...
...EXAMPLE, one of the strongest New Politics ideals--participation in the political process without hope of personal gain--is one which is not likely to strike many responsive chords outside of those intellectuals who have the time and resources to participate in this manner. By contrast, American Blacks who participate in politics tend to do so either for personal gain reminiscent of "machine politics" days (the members of Adam Clayton Powell's Harlem political clubs) or as quasi-revolutionaries. Neither approach fits particularly well with the New Politics...