Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only meaningful justification for McCarthy's campaign is the longshot chance that he can deny Johnson the nomination. Other possibilities have been mentioned. A successful primary bid might make the Party's war platform more dovish. But President Johnson has ignored the platform before; he can certainly do so again. A large vote for McCarthy might influence Republicans to nominate a dove. But Republican nominating conventions have shown no great disposition for bringing political realities into their decisions in the past. There is no reason to think they will...
...greatest involvement lies with the honorific agencies of the University--lectureships such as the Godkin series and honorary degrees. Great dissenters and heretics have not been given a platform here at Harvard. The commencement address has been repeatedly used to advance the cold...
...wait until last week to make it official? One answer is that it was only in the past few weeks that analysts felt the evidence was strong enough. Also, with congressional hearings this week on the nation's missile defense system, McNamara obviously wanted to use his own platform for such a significant disclosure. Finally, no doubt, Washington felt that Moscow might make the announcement during this week's 50th-anniversary celebrations of the Soviet Revolution, and thus create the shattering impression that the U.S. was now wide open to destruction from outer space...
...planets." Sir Bernard Lovell, Director of Britain's Jodrell Bank observatory, agreed that this was "a logical explanation." But Lovell, as well as other Western observers, believes that the space docking project could also be part of a Soviet effort toward orbiting the moon from a space platform circling the earth. All this is necessary because the Russians, so far, do not seem to have developed a vehicle-such as the U.S.'s Saturn 5 -with sufficient thrust to send up a complete exploration unit on a direct flight to the vicinity of the moon...
...Have you ever propagandized on behalf of one of these organizations, its platform of its goals, even without being a member...