Word: lapelled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of this fall's successful candidates for congress, and especially for the Senate, stayed near the middle of the road and addressed the Social Issue firmly but without hysteria. Adlai Stevenson III pinned an American flag to his lapel, reminded voters of his sponsorship of anti-crime bills, and lined up the chief prosecutor of the Chicago Seven as his co-chairman. By contrast, his opponent, Republican Senator Smith, ran a smear campaign and refused to reject the support of the John Birch Society. California dumped flamboyant ultra-conservative Max Rafferty and George Murphy in favor of Riles Wilson...
...strong and expensive law-and-order campaign by incumbent Republican Senator Ralph Smith in Illinois failed to make a difference in his race with Adlai Stevenson III. Stevenson moved considerably towards the right during the campaign, plugging his war experiences and displaying a flag-pin in his lapel-and this evidently enabled him to hold on to his early campaign lead. He is expected to take 58 per cent of the vote in winning the seat from Smith, who had been appointed to finish out the term of the late Everett Dirksen...
...sentiment and a personal campaign style that has changed in the course of four months from disastrous to mediocre. But if he does not excite the voters, he clearly gets their respect as he makes his rounds in three-button suit (all buttoned and a flag pin in the lapel) for 18 hours...
There he participated in a warm ceremony welcoming 140 men and women of 37 nationalities who were about to become American citizens. Pat Nixon gave each new citizen an American-flag pin like the one the President wears in his lapel. Then all-including Candidate Smith-adjourned to a buffet table adorned with a large spun-sugar elephant...
...serious practitioners of the art of persuasion, the implication seems obvious. A lawyer summing up his case to the jury, for instance, might be wise to do so from the middle of the courtroom. The politician had better get his fingers off that lapel, and the peripatetic salesman would do well to remove his foot from the door...