Word: lester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ministers had forgotten, he then recalled the brouhahas of other days-from his refusal to meet F.D.R. after the Yalta Conference in 1945 to his recognition of Red China in 1964. The Canadian government, however, refused to think of the incident in such grandiose terms. Prime Minister Lester Pearson simply reiterated his statement that the French meddling was "unacceptable," indicating that he can use a euphemism with deadly effect...
...Southern state like Mississippi, where personal attacks rather than issues dominate campaigns, promises differ in tone and emphasis and not in content. Williams, who has amply proved his conservative credentials by giving up his Party power for Goldwater, does not need to shout the old slogans. Lester Maddox, in the Georgia gubernatorial race last year, never once raised the issue of race, but instead called for mental health facilities and new industry while his segregationist opponents shrieked strident phrases over each other's head. In the same way, Williams is now calling for better schools--and yet still winning...
...Those monkeys, those savages, all Negroes are rioters. To hell with them.' This does nothing for the guy who works at the post office and is slowly getting ready to move out. He gets destroyed while the pimps and whores go on." Georgia's Governor Lester Maddox promptly made Moynihan sound prophetic. Said Maddox of the Newark and Detroit riots: "You can't say 'please' to a bunch of savages, rapists and murderers...
Offices in Corridors. Georgia's Democratic Governor Lester Maddox airily dismisses most of the C.E.D. recommendations, instead attributes the states' troubles to a yen by Washington "to take them over." But many Governors have long been pushing the sort of reforms proposed by the C.E.D. Says Vermont's Philip Hoff, a Democrat serving his third two-year term: "The states have forced the growth of centralized Federal Government because they have failed to meet their responsibilities...
...senile (see MEDICINE) and that he had been merely carried away by the high emotion of the occasion. Not so. He deliberately built up to his climax and pronounced the offending words with careful emphasis and an actor's precision. Watching the scene on TV, Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson could hardly believe his ears, called for tapes of the speech...