Word: performance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Formless and confusing as the campaign was, neither party underestimated the importance of the outcome. If they were to have much hope for 1968, the Republicans had to regain most of the 38 House seats they lost in 1964, pick up a couple of governorships and perform well in the contests for some 6,800 state legislative seats. Otherwise, as House Minority Leader Jerry Ford put it, "there won't be anybody who will want" the Republican presidential nomination. Lyndon Johnson insisted bravely that a loss of 40 or 50 House seats would not "adversely affect the Government program...
...chided college students for the "lack of a feeling of obligation" to perform service for their country...
...General Court will stand up, face the center aisle and applaud as the new state officers, soldiers, chaplains and state troopers file in. Then, the inauguration ceremony will continue as it always has with just one change. The men taking the oath of office will swear to perform their duties for four years instead...
...public lavatory to his own bed as he sleeps on it. Glancing at U.S. bestsellers, Moore wryly noted that Harold Robbins' The Adventurers "introduces a different nymphomaniac every few chapters," while Masters and Johnson's Human Sexual Response describes hundreds of couples' reactions as they "perform their sexual functions, naturally and artificially, under klieg lights...
...latter are classified 1-0 and permitted under the law "to perform civilian work contributing to the maintenance of the national health, safety or interest"-usually in hospitals or non-profit social agencies. About 5,000 C.O.s are engaged in such chores in the U.S. and nine foreign countries. Says a selective service official: "You have to be sincere to do the jobs they do. Pushing a bedpan around a mental hospital soon begins to wear pretty thin if you aren...