Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Detroit, pre-election Wallace partisans flocked back to the Democratic Party, joining Negroes, suburban whites and elderly voters to swing Michigan's 21 electoral votes to Humphrey by 151,-000 votes. Many Wallaceites also defected in Southern and Border states upon which he had counted. "They all talked hard," said Republican State Chairman Bill Murfin of Florida, "but the softness was there, and in the last two weeks of the campaign they just melted away...
Originally viewed in the Nixon camp as a hard-working but unobtrusive No. 2 man, the Maryland Governor was indeed industrious. He was anything but unobtrusive. In three months, "Agnewism" became virtually a synonym of "malapropism," and Democrats got good mileage out of such comments as "If you've seen one slum, you've seen them all." A Democratic TV commercial consisted of the simple legend "Agnew for Vice President?"?and nearly 30 seconds of laughter...
...Humphrey watched in a 14th-floor hotel suite was in no small measure a tribute to his rare amalgam of warmth, courage, do-gooding liberalism and practical politics. "Hubert is not a gut fighter," Lyndon Johnson, an expert judge of the breed, carped in 1960. Yet Humphrey could hit hard and often-as he did in the closing weeks of the 1968 campaign. Despite his revilement by dis. sident Democrats, there is no reason why Humphrey should not remain a major figure in the Democratic Party. Still, his defeat marks an exit-the exit of a style, of a certain...
...pauses, hard memory reflected in her sweet blue eyes. "But I was all wrong! I was being used. I had to cut Sociology classes in order to practice formations. The Band Master shouted at me when I dropped my baton. We were forced to play music we didn't like and we had to cut our hair at neck length, and I know you won't believe this but once we had to form a dollar sign in front of 60,000 people! They tried to make us think we were serving the cause of good music and making people...
...that weren't bad enough, on Saturday morning Tempie refused to get on the Band bus for the Minnesota game. The Band Master looked her hard in the eye and asked: "Aren't you going to Minnesota, Miss Drake?" She looked him harder in the eye and shouted: "Heck no, I won't go!" Whereupon the Band Master put her in handcuffs and sent her to Minnesota under the guard of two tuba players. "What they did to me," she says, "was forced induction...