Word: govern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anti-Wallace Alabamians started wearing buttons proclaiming I'M TOO OLD FOR A GOVERNESS, but no one was really fooled. Nor did Wallace make any pretense that Lurleen would govern if elected. "My record is running, not my wife," he said ungallantly. VOTE FOR LURLEEN AND LET GEORGE DO IT, urged the billboards. Bumper stickers on cars simply said VOTE WALLACE...
...School defines the term as "the loosing of the world from religious and quasi-religious understandings of itself, the dispelling of all closed world views, the breaking of all supernatural myths and sacred symbols." Slowly but surely, it dawned on men that they did not need God to explain, govern or justify certain areas of life...
...commentators from all parts of the spectrum have remarked upon Wilson's exceptional political skill. His singular achievement has been to move his party in from the left, blur distinctions between the parties on a range of issues, and, at the same time, demonstrate that Labour can, after all, govern with prudence and responsibility. Even the Tories have ceased to raise the spectre of socialism's red ruin to frighten the electorate...
Despite the People's Party's surprise victory, no one expected the coalition era to end. "In Britain, it is possible to govern with a hair-thin majority, but Austria lacks the democratic tradition Britain has," explained Chancellor Josef Klaus, 55, leader of the People's Party. "We are still too weak and the Socialists too strong for us to govern alone." Nevertheless, he intends to use the victory to unknot Austria's badly stalemated governmental processes...
...Dahomey, a running feud between the leaders of the nation's three main tribal groups had brought down two governments in three years. "I am taking over because of the incapacity of the politicians to govern," said Colonel Christophe Soglo when he brought down the third...