Word: javitses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That left Goodell, and a couple of others. Former Senator Kenneth Keating apparently lost out because of his age, 68. Congressman Ogden Reid, a liberal from suburban Westchester, was eliminated because he seemed too much like the state's other Republican Senator, Jacob Javits. Goodell, a moderate conservative from...
This useful thesaurus confirms the suspicion that today's political phrasemakers are members of an eminent brotherhood devoted to the preservation of the hoary phrase-curators of the cliche. Even more pertinent is the discovery by Author Safire, a public-relations executive and former campaign aide of Richard Nixon...
Michigan's George W. Romney, Pennsylvania's Raymond Shafer and Illinois' Senator Charles Percy pledged their help, while Washington's Daniel Evans, Rhode Island's John Chafee and Colorado's John Love-all three Rockefeller men-signed up for posts on the candidate'...
On the first morning of the Convention, for example,they cheered enthusiastically when John Wayne said he wants his daughter to be proud of his country's fighting men. They did not cheer at all when Senator Jacob Javits said the GOP must solve the law-and-order problem by...
> By August, Democratic and Republican leaders decide that all the talk about new politics and the need for change has made all the principal contenders obsolete. In Miami Beach, the Republicans nominate Jacob Javits and Edward Brooke. In Chicago, the Democrats pick Abe Fortas and Carl Stokes. The big issue...