Word: lost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LOST IN THE FUNHOUSE, by John Earth. The author of The Sot-Weed Factor and Giles Goat-Boy experiments with 14 inventive pieces of fiction, some of which are intended to be heard as well as read...
...South is a Democratic disaster area, with conservatism the dominant motif. Regardless of his warm reception in North Carolina, Humphrey has lost even some moderate Southern leaders who helped nominate him. The urban machines in the North have been decaying for years, and Johnson has done nothing to reverse that trend. Working-class families grown affluent because of general prosperity are defecting to Nixon and Wallace. Negroes, while generally loyal, are distracted by the anti-Establishment mood of their militant elements and by grief over the loss of their favorite, Robert Kennedy. Some black voters may sit out the election...
Southern Drawl. Wallace's discomfort was understandable. He knew that Barry Goldwater lost countless votes in 1964 because he was considered a bomb rattler. Though he is all bluster and bombast on domestic issues and a 100% hawk on Viet Nam, he has barred nuclear weapons in Viet Nam. At the end of LeMay's press conference, Wallace jumped on reporters for even raising the matter, declaring that "General LeMay hasn't said anything about the use of nuclear weapons...
Last week, Whitten lost, 175 to 167. But the result was hardly an encouraging victory for Congressional civil rights forces. No ground was lost. But those who hoped for more federal sanctions were beaten soundly...
THROUGHOUT the summer, prospects have been bleak for civil rights supporters in Congress. Wary Congressmen, watching the swing to the right among the home voters, have lost much of their ardor for further federal civil rights legislation. Those guiding welfare bills through the House watched helplessly as the inevitable budget cuts took alarmingly large chunks out of their appropriations. Then, in June, the bomb fell. Guided by Congressman Jamie Whitten of Mississippi, the House came within inches of saddling an $18 billion HEW bill with a rider that threatened to return school desegregation efforts to the medieval...