Word: leftward
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There are those who argue that Muskie is "the leftward-most electable candidate," and that "the name of the game is to beat Nixon." In fact, however, Muskie has yet to be tested in an election situation, and the place where leftward candidates can prove or disprove that thesis is in the primaries. Moreover, "the name of the game" must be more than to beat Nixon. We can hopefully do better than replace a moderate conservative with a moderate liberal, even though the latter may be preferable...
...discuss the ramifications of withdrawal. Vice President Agnew was in Saudi Arabia, fourth stop on his 32-day, ten-nation itinerary. More cryptic about his mission, Agnew's purpose seems to be to reassure the friendly, if conservative, nations he visits that the U.S. was not slipping irretrievably leftward under the pressures of Viet...
Thus Bolivia's leftward tilt revealed to the world the accelerating momentum of a major trend in Latin America. A year ago, when he launched his government of "revolutionary nationalism," Ovando cast himself as a general of the left. He courted the same loose coalition of students, workers, and young, socially oriented military officers that Bolivia's flamboyant General René Barrientos had used as a power base during his regime. Ovando brought left-wing intellectuals into his Cabinet, expropriated the holdings of American-owned Bolivian Gulf Oil Co., and gave Communist labor leaders free reign...
...woebegone history of most third-party movements in the U.S., the leftward alignments of Buckley's two opponents offer him a rare chance to recruit support from both Republican and Democratic conservatives. Incumbent Senator Charles Goodell was a moderate-conservative upstate Congressman when Governor Nelson Rockefeller appointed him to the Senate after Robert Kennedy's assassination...
...ashamed of him." The Hearst papers got a seat without applying for one. With spots reserved for U.S. News & World Report, the Chicago Tribune and a correspondent for the Nashville (Tenn.) Banner, the Greenville (S.C.) News and the Jackson (Miss.) Daily News, the press delegation seemed safe from a leftward tilt...