Word: populists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last, Carter seemed to have come out into the open. He chose a running mate, Senator Walter Mondale, who has a 94% approval rating from the Americans for Democratic Action, an apparent liberal's liberal. At the Democratic Convention, Carter delivered an avowedly Populist sermon that attacked the "political and economic elite," the "big-shot crooks" who never go to jail, and the "unholy, self-perpetuating alliances [that] have been formed between money and politics." Among other things, he repeated his endorsement of the idea of a national health system-an expensive proposition for an anti-Government candidate...
...Carter suddenly lurched to the left? Not really. Since he began his political career in 1962 as a Georgia state senator, he has been a complicated political original-what FORTUNE'S Juan Cameron describes as a "cost-conscious liberal." All the Populist notes of his acceptance speech were echoes of what he has been saying for years...
...strong emotion, that befittingly climaxed the convention. Carter had spent some 30 hours honing the speech, which was about 65% wholly his own effort. The rest was mostly the work of his top speech writer, Patrick Anderson. Carter had used a tape recorder to practice his delivery. Surprisingly populist in thrust, yet with bows to free enterprise and an appeal to patriotic pride, the speech elaborated on Carter's now familiar campaign themes...
...after Carter put him on the ticket, he did a better than creditable job in his acceptance speech, with an impassioned Humphreyesque plea for a return to the old-fashioned virtue of compassion. It was a sermon that he began to learn nearly half a century ago from a populist Methodist minister and a proud woman in the small, stricken towns of Minnesota...
...populist community of the air -using many CB sets with illegally high power output-has overflowed the banks of its 23 federally assigned channels, filling the air with errant electromagnetic waves. Complaints from TV, radio and even stereo users are flooding Federal Communications Commission offices across the land. Some vigilantes with axes and sledges have invaded base stations (home-based CB transmitters) to smash offending sets...