Word: knightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrats left their first full-dress Senate attack on the Eisenhower Administration to Arkansas' J. (for James) William Fulbright, 53, the white knight of Democratic liberals-so white, in fact, that he is politically a segregationist with a record of opposition to last session's civil rights bill and of obdurate silence on Little Rock and his own state's governor, Orval Faubus. With such a background, Rhodes Scholar Fulbright chose an odd subject: education, and the federal education assistance bill before the Senate...
Westminster Abbey, was cited by the Vatican (Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great), once headed the Yale University Catholic center and chapel fund-raising committee. In 1947 President Truman awarded him the President's Certificate of Merit, and in 1952 Queen Elizabeth II made him honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire...
...week the Republican big-weights had jockeyed themselves into position. At Fresno's amateur Democratic fling, there were few amateurs. The years had been a bitter education. Red-eyed, knowledgeable, and disillusioned, they nominated Pat Brown for governor--against William Knowland; and Congressman Clair Engle for senator--against "Goodie" Knight. They passed up Petter Odeguard (a Berkeley political science professor) and Richard Richards, and endorsed a ticket of warmed-over conservative vegetables to serve to the public in November...
California is five-to-three Democratic, but pool-room Angelenos and the Gardena oddsmakers are betting on Knowland and Knight. The past has proven that in times of muddy principles, the big name always wins. Meanwhile, the amateurs have gone back to bedroom grumbling and the sort of self-indulgence that keeps America on the middle road to nowhere...
...while Columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop sniped at Dulles and Chicago Publisher John S. Knight clamored for his resignation. Columnist David Lawrence noted: "If ever a man should be loved for the enemies he has made, it is John Foster Dulles...who believes that the U.S. should be guided by its conscience in world affairs and should not encourage gangsterism or the exploitation of weak and undeveloped countries by imperialists. He is convinced that moral force can win the support of right-thinking people throughout the world, and that meanwhile a strong military force, capable of massive retaliation...