Word: mate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Humphrey had little problem choosing a running mate. He had consulted 100 party leaders, businessmen and labor officials, including A.F.L.-C.I.O. Boss George Meany, who simply urged him to choose the best man. By the morning after his nomination, his mind was made up. A week before Chicago, he had met for two hours in his Harbour Square apartment in Southwest Washington with Gene McCarthy. McCarthy agreed that his own chances for the nomination were slight, whereupon Humphrey asked if the second spot would appeal to him. "No," said McCarthy. "Don't offer it." During the same week, Humphrey visited...
...florid rhetoric. It was hardly foreseeable before last week that the Democratic vice-presidential nominee?who is in fact the son of a Polish-born tailor?would be matched against a Republican opposite number from Maryland with a curiously similar background. Muskie and Spiro Agnew, Richard Nixon's running mate, are both sons of immigrants. Both grew up in straitened circumstances. Both have foreshortened surnames, and both are generally unfamiliar to the American electorate...
...Vice President remained above the battle, letting it be known that he was devoting some time to his accept ance speech. He was also pondering a running mate. According to a private poll that he commissioned, only two Democrats would enhance Humphrey's popularity. One is McCarthy, but his often-abusive treatment of Humphrey in recent days all but ruled him out. The other is Teddy Kennedy, who would add at least 15% to Humphrey's vote total. The figure might have been higher had the survey been conducted after Teddy's speech. However, Teddy described himself...
...spikes, tiny sensors transformed the light into nerve impulses that sent electrical signals to the brain. Under strong light, those impulses automatically blanked out the sense of smell and responses to temperature and humidity on which a moth relies as it flies around in search of a mate or a place to lay eggs...
Nixiecrat. The Southerners are now attempting to keep Humphrey from breaking toward the liberal side in his effort to mollify the followers of Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern. Last week a group of party leaders proposed a Southern running mate for Humphrey, mentioning seven prospects by name.* Humphrey preferred to remain politely vague. Nonetheless, in Mississippi he is backing the biracial insurgent delegate slate, a direct slap at the old-time leaders. And last week he coined the term Nixiecrat to disparage Nixon's association with conservative Southerners like Thurmond, who led the Dixiecrat revolt...