Word: grope
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...executive, by Cabinet, by legislature -these are the terms most often used in assessing the two-party system. Less frequently discussed is the question of cohesive party rule. Given their fragmented condition, neither major U.S. party today is cemented to a clearly defined constituency of region or class; both grope for a majority among shifting factions. In a recent speech, Richard Nixon argued that there is an alternative, that in fact a first-of-its-kind "new alignment for American unity" has been forming...
Harvard President Nathan Pusey called it "as festive an occasion as we've had in a long time." Students poured into Harvard Square brandishing banners proclaiming GROPIUS FOR PRESIDENT and THERE'S HOPE WITH GROPE. Orange, green and magenta Gropius buttons blossomed on lapels, and one admirer wrapped himself up in a flame-and-gold package as a "present to Mr. Gropius." Harvard's favorite-son candidate, Architect Walter Gropius, had just returned from an 85th-birthday visit to his native Germany, and his disciples in Cambridge were not to be outdone in their esteem. Said Gropius...
...artsy-craftsy people in Robinson Hall turned the lobby into a convention hall. They hung a low ceiling of streamers and balloons, and carried "Grope in '68" posters bobbing above the heads of the crowd...
Speakers talked into a dead microphone about what the man had done for technology and design. A kid in a sweat shirt wandered up and asked a grad student in a "Grope for President" hat what was going...
...student started telling something about how the man had started the Bauhaus School in Germany and that was what everyone was studying now. When he looked up towards the speakers' platform, the kid grabbed a "Grope" button...