Word: oppositionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Floor debate on the Haynsworth nomination is expected to begin this week. Both sides are careening toward it on a collision course. A head count by Republican leaders last week showed 54 Senators planning to vote against Haynsworth or leaning that way. Only 36 backed the taciturn South Carolinian. Ten...
Renewed Efforts. Administration tallies disputed those figures, and in public and private White House aides continued to exude confidence in Haynsworth's eventual confirmation. The Administration's figures have as many as 52 Senators finally voting to raise Haynsworth to the seat previously held by Justice Abe Fortas...
Venture Opposition. Even so, there is no doubt that a Haynsworth defeat would hurt the President. Having thrown his full weight behind the nomination, he cannot hope to retrieve his prestige unscathed. Party unity, already damaged by the fracas, will suffer further; Senators will perhaps be emboldened to venture more...
PLAGUED by a tradition which seems remote from their own experience. the new poets have struggled to create a style which they could know as their own; drawn, like all the rest of us, into a bias of activity. theirs is essentially a poetry of polities, but not of propaganda...
Chief opposition to the bill will come from trial lawyers, who get much of their income from the type of court proceedings that the basic protection plan would claimant. Keeton said.