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Word: lefts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this in spite of your cursory, patronizing attitude concerning the political beliefs I espouse. The silent majority of the people in our nation are beginning to vote the way I think and to resent the "care from cradle to grave" philosophy which your articulate liberal-left minority are smugly taking for granted as a way to political power in this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 3, 1969 | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

...targets of his pointed pen have included Billy Graham, Cardinal Spellman, Lyndon B. Johnson, President Nixon and Frank Sinatra. Sorel's depiction of New York mayors past, present and possibly future is derived from Eugène Delacroix's painting of Liberty Leading the People. On the left, gazing up at Procaccino, is Mayor John Lindsay. Former Mayor Robert Wagner lies defeated in the foreground. The legs of the supine man at lower left may or may not be those of Republican Candidate John Marchi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Oct. 3, 1969 | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

Richard Nixon's way is the via media. On almost every issue he has confronted since he took office, the President has steered a middle course - or zigzagged from right to left in an effort to maintain a national equilibrium. Thus in his welfare package, Nixon made a gesture to the left by advocating a minimum annual income and to the right by keeping that subsidy at $1,600 for a family of four, far below the poverty line, and insisting that recipients accept "suitable" employment or vocational training. He suggested tax reforms, but would prefer to maintain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Nixon's Paradox | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

There was no reason for doubt left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Gathering Protest | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

...other and a row of uniformed police commanders in the background. Procaccino, too, knows where the votes are. Any Democrat in New York starts with a huge advantage because his party's enrollment outnumbers the Republican and fringe-party membership by 3 to 1. Defections from the Democratic left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: NEW YORK: THE REVOLT OF THE AVERAGE MAN | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

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