Word: pro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their best to hold the line in the general election against Alabama's George Wallace. In return, Nixon supposedly made certain promises, one of them being a guarantee to Strom Thurmond that he could name a Justice to the Supreme Court when the opportunity arose. If a quid pro quo arrangement was in fact agreed upon, to withdraw Haynsworth's name might lose key Southern support for the 1970 congressional elections, and for the presidential race...
...C.D.U. too "black" or Catholic and the S.P.D. too "red" or socialistic. At first the F.D.P. was dominated by a right wing of nay-sayers?businessmen who thought there was too much welfare spending, Protestants wary of the C.D.U.'s heavy Catholic influence, nationalists who felt Bonn was too pro-American. Scheel belonged to the Free Democrats' younger left wing, and when he took over 21 months ago, he set about transforming party policy from right of the C.D.U. to left of the S.P.D. on a number of important issues. Since there are still conservatives in his party that resent...
...elected leaders of the nation, how much more so will it, then, to gathered colleagues who are simply registering their opinions without the slightest pretensions of speaking for anyone else. (Note that President Cordier of Columbia, whose University Senate just passed such an anti-war resolution as is being pro posed to the Harvard faculty-at Columbia a student-faculty-administration Senate takes care of such matters-noted categorically that the resolution "does not speak for the University." NY Times...
...prevent the Crusaders from adding a touchdown in the final two seconds, Dartmouth made an on-sides kick and recovered the ball. End of game. It was kind of like Killer Kiwalski kicking Arnold Scolland in the groin after the Killer had laid Arnold out flat in a pro wrestling spectacular...
...Because they did not want the referendum to be saddled with extra provisions which might cause its defeat at the polls, the three pro-referendum councillors voted against the Vellucci amendments, which were all defeated...