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Word: maneuverers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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It is precisely his restraint and respectability that make Eastland a far more dismaying phenomenon than Vardaman and his ilk ever were. When an old-style Southern politician made an unvarnished appeal to racial hatred, it was possible to dismiss it as a coldly cynical maneuver to get the poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: The Authentic Voice | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

Room for Maneuver. This fact gives a hollow ring to arguments of "moderate" Southerners when they protest against federal intervention and demand to be allowed "to work this thing out our own way." Already the Supreme Court's school desegregation decision has accomplished more toward giving first-class citizenship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: The Authentic Voice | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

At first the wheat support vote was tallied as 46 for flexible supports and 45 against. Then the Senate went through the parliamentary maneuver of confirming the vote (a motion to reconsider and table), which Administration forces won handily. At that point, however, Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson rose to say...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The First Harvest | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

Local politicians sling mud with such obvious disregard for the validity of their charges, that the interested citizen can usually gain only a dramatic diversion by following their activities. The latest explosion at City Hall, however, reaches much deeper than the usual headline-grabbing maneuver. In effect, it is a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Planners' Peanuts | 3/16/1956 | See Source »

All in all, 2,500 caparisoned horsemen and another 5,000 on foot flowed out to Kaduna's racecourse and polo field to parade and maneuver before the Queen. In wave after wave, each gaudier and more dashing than the one before, they marched and charged before the royal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGERIA: The Queen's Durbar | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

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