Word: holding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...during the Six Day War, before which officials were worried that there would be problems calling up army reservists from among the immigrants. "It was the end of a recession," Eisenstadt recalls, and there was much unemployment in the development towns. "There was apprehension on how the morale would hold up" when the working man of the family would be called away, and no one knew how people would react to the tension of the war and "the preceding two weeks, which were really more tense than the war itself," he said. But, he continued, there was no problem...
...long as we let them think and act for us, as long as we will bow to their opinions, and acknowledge that their word is counsel and their will is law; so long they will outwardly treat us as men while in their hearts they still hold us as slaves...
...close of the meeting, the group decided to hold a rally in support of its demands on January 10, three days after the next scheduled Faculty meeting. It was agreed that a small group would picket and leaflet at the Faculty meeting, but that it would be impossible to organize a large rally by the time of the meeting...
...Forming a new concept of the nature of personal commitment to the party--in other words, the right to speak on issues, and the right to with hold endorsement or funds--when that would be greater in achieving goats. This is a direct reaction to the "heavy-handed" Johnson and Humphrey supporters who have continuously claimed that being a Democrat involves a ban on attacks on the Administration or the war in Vietnam...
...success in December of 1968 than it did at any time during the pre-convention Presidential battle. The political landscape was changed quite radically by campaigns (Kennedy, McCarthy, and McGovern) within the party and by the Democrats' defeat in the November elections. In Arizona, for instance, the Democrats hold no statewide offices (from U.S. Senator down) and are in a minority in both houses of the legislature. "In 1968 the conservatives kept telling us not to upset the applecart--Johnson would lose and we would be defeated on the state level," said Richard Wilks, a Pheonix lawyer who heads...