Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week. Yet, while attacking Benson, Coad, like a remarkable number of other Midwestern Democratic winners, is far from committed to an all-out reversal of Benson's policies. "I see a moderate reversal of the direction Benson was going in," said Coad. "By moderate reversal, I mean lifting minimum supports from 65% up to 70% or 75% of parity and looking at the limitations on production...
...votes. In New York, where the Catholic vote is supposed to be powerful, the voters pulled a switch, defeated Democratic Senatorial Candidate Frank Hogan, a Catholic. Said Iowa's Congressman Coad, himself a Disciples of Christ minister: "I think the country is 30 years beyond 1928, and I mean that not only from a standpoint of time but from the standpoint of this subject. It's just not an issue...
...this kind of situation is D.F.L.'s meat. According to Humphrey's favorite maxim: "Power goes to those who seek it." And by defining "seek" to mean the kind of hard work that Republicans dislike, D.F.L. thinks it has the key to power in Minnesota for at least a decade...
Racial discrimination in the U.S. gave most of the Parisian Negroes the initial push toward self-exile, but they stay in France for other reasons. Chester Himes concedes that "in America you have this personal problem, of course. But that's not what I mean about France. I like France, and can work here because everybody, and I mean everybody-the concierge as well as the intellectual-respects creative work. They understand writers and help them...
...mean little gain for Soviet propaganda, and a larger defeat for human dignity. Yet if Pasternak's letter was a retreat, it was not a complete capitulation. A Russian patriot, he had plainly not enjoyed being trapped in the no man's land of the East-West cold war. No political figure, asking only of politics that it not destroy all that he holds more dear, Boris Pasternak, during the blackest years of Stalin's tyranny, had aloofly "listened to the world through his soul...