Word: mckinleyism
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...inauguration. Said D.W. Bailey, 71: "Some of the niggers play dominoes but they don't play like we do, so I'm told." Greene County's whites withdrew -some in bitterness, some in fear-when the time came for Sheriff Thomas Gilmore and Probate Judge William McKinley Branch to join five black school board members and four county commissioners in the courthouse...
...essentially a legislative man, not so much an ideologue as a hierophant of parliamentary procedure. He embodied much that is best and some that is worst-or perhaps silliest-in the American congressional tradition. His talent for the political about-face was acrobatic. Everett McKinley Dirksen, said his Illinois colleague Paul Douglas, "is a man of no principles." Dirksen preferred to call it "flexibility," and that kindlier word, which suggests growth rather than knavery, often proved accurate enough to describe his shifts in policy. During his 35 years in the House and Senate, Dirksen was isolationist, internationalist, champion...
...Davidson leads a more settled life now. He makes films for his own Anchorage-based company, Alaska Wildlife Productions, and has published a book, Minus 148, about the first winter ascent of North America's highest peak, Mt. McKinley. (The title refers to the temperature Art and two other members of the expedition withstood when they were forced to wait out a windstorm for several days in an ice-cave near the summit. One member of the expedition died in a crevasse during the ascent; Art was lucky enough to return to Anchorage with the loss of only...
People have quixotic ways of seeking out the hard things in life-climbing Mount McKinley; pointing tiny boats through the high seas; getting married; commuting. Some special souls in search of a really refined form of self-punishment even begin to write. Each year only about 130 of them endure to achieve contracts from hardback publishing companies and so acquire the dubious title of "first novelists." And that is often only the beginning of their troubles...
...That looks like you're hauling 'em in like cattle," explains the Rev. William McKinley Branch, the county's black voting chairman. Volunteer housewives in Kinston, N.C., decided the house-to-house approach was too slow. They invaded poolrooms and grocery stores in black neighborhoods, stopped pedestrians on sidewalks - and managed in one two-week period to coax 850 blacks off the streets to register...