Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...capturing the Governor's mansion, both state houses, and six of Iowa's seven seats in the House of Representatives. To avert a total rout, dejected Democrats are looking to a lone champion, Governor Harold E. Hughes, 46, a craggy-jawed former truck driver who is battling hard to avoid being buried under an anti-Democratic avalanche...
...present, Bonn's diplomatic and economic penetration into Eastern Europe, Ulbricht has cleverly seized upon West Germany's earlier permissive attitude to set up a new party. By so doing, he and his Soviet superiors have accomplished two important goals: they have 1) founded a new, hard-lining party in Western Europe at a time when the major Western European parties have split with Moscow over the Czechoslovak invasion, and 2) created an instrument for stirring up political strife in the Federal Republic...
Violated Constitution. It was a classic case of overreaction. Mexico's students are neither hard-core revolution aries of the Paris model nor U.S.-style dropouts from society. What they do have in common with students everywhere is disenchantment with the Establishment. Mexico's government is more established than most, and the all-powerful Partido Revolucionaro Institutional suffers from the arteriosclerosis of absolute power held too long. While proclaiming the high ideals of revolution embodied in the constitution of 1917, it has turned increasingly to the power of the army to put down revolts in the impoverished countryside...
...British labor unions existed long before the Labor Party. They helped create the party, continue to provide it with the bulk of its funds and its hard core of votes - and to some extent feel that they are, in fact, the party. The symbiosis works well enough when Labor is out of power and both party and unions need one another. It works less well once the party leaders don their bowler hats, pick up their dispatch cases and move into Whitehall. Then the unions naturally enough expect their reward. But the responsibilities of ruling Britain seldom enable a socialist...
...Hard Facts. At Blackpool, Cousins was determined to put the unions' unhappiness on record. As the first order of conference business, he introduced a motion to condemn compulsory wage and price guidelines as dampers on both trade-union activity and economic expansion and called for their immediate repeal. In answer, Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy Jenkins made brutally clear, "the hard facts of life" gave Britain little choice. In 1967, he pointed out, prices increased only 2% while wages jumped 6%. "The only trouble was that we did not earn it," he said. "Production that year went...