Word: musts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reconstruction and recovery, states' rights was the legalistic bond that held most Southerners together. "We live in a federated system," said Virginia's courtly Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. in Richmond, "in which the Federal Government has no powers other than those delegated by the states." "It must be remembered," said Arkansas' rabblerousing Governor Orval Faubus in Little Rock, "that the Federal Government is the creature of the states . . We must either choose to defend our rights or else surrender...
...Washington the hardening line was that the U.S. must stand for equal opportunity for all citizens as defined by the Constitution and defended by the courts...
...overcome his primary setback, Bill Knowland faces a statistically staggering job. To come within 100,000 votes of Brown in November, Knowland must 1) persuade seven of every ten registered Republicans to vote, 2) recapture the 23% of the Republican primary vote he lost to Brown, and 3) increase his 15% slice of the Democratic primary vote to some 25% in November...
...toward Communism? This is a major unanswered question. Ordinary Russians show signs of a to-hell-with-Communism, give-us-more-consumer-goods attitude that the government cannot ignore, and even of old-style Midwestern isolationist resentment against Soviet "giveaways" to China and India. But in any case, we must face this generalization: any changes in the Soviet Union within the next few years will be within the Soviet system and not against it. The Soviet people do not want to be liberated...
...future, Ruiz Cortines passed on one short rule to guide his successors: "What is necessary must be made possible." Then he added an important corollary: "But every demand that ignores reality deserves oblivion...