Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...continued disaffection-and often outright hostility-of many fellow liberals. Walter Lippmann endorsed Richard Nixon, arguing that the Republican is a "maturer and mellower man" than he used to be and that the Democrats need a period of "rest and recuperation." Murray Kempton wrote that the Democrats "deserve to lose." Novelist Norman Mailer concluded that Nixon might not be all that bad (see THE PRESS). Michigan's New Democratic Coalition refused to endorse the party ticket. California's Young Democrats voted not "to even begin to consider" supporting Humphrey unless he agrees to meet six demands, including...
Disaster Area. For the Democrats, it has become obvious that, win or lose, they are left with the problem of marking out new constituencies. After nearly 40 years, the coalition assembled by Franklin Roosevelt is in the final throes of disintegration, a process that was slowed down but not halted by Lyndon Johnson's 1964 victory...
...more important, the HEW men said, was the deterrent effect. These 115 districts served as examples to their possibly-recalcitant neighbors. "For each one of the cut-offs we make," a Justice Department worker remarked, "we convince ten others to give in. They know they're going to lose if they hold...
Administration officials and liberal Congressmen called the punitive restriction unfair, unconstitutional, and unwarranted meddling. It was also unnecessary, they argued, because a disruptive student would probably be suspended or expelled and so lose his aid anyway. But the House disagreed. It was passing the ban precisely because it felt that university officials lacked the "intestinal fortitude" to act against demonstrators...
...desire to exchange ideas with representatives from the Wilson Committee before it made its report to the Faculty. Stanley Hoffman, professor of Government, arguing for this position at the last meeting, pointed out that if SFAC waited until after the Wilson report had been made public it would lose its chance to influence the decisions of the committee...