Word: professed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...figure may be exaggerated, but there is little doubt that the shouters help rather than hurt. A huge majority of Americans (86% according to the Harris poll) profess to admire him for having the "courage to say what he really thinks." With a month to go to Election Day, Wallace appears, if anything, to be gaining momentum...
Humphrey aides profess to note a growing sense of disquiet in the nation over Nixon's above-the-battle posture. Moreover, the Vice President's emphasis on the old theme that the Democrats bring prosperity and the Republicans take it away may by paying off; bread and butter is still a tasty dish. Humphrey could find little consolation, however, in the 1948 Truman victory he is trying to emulate. According to a Gallup poll released this week, Humphrey trails Nixon by 15 points, 43 to 28. At roughly the same stage in 1948, a Roper poll showed Truman...
...corner in Southeast Asia, where they care about neither Communism nor freedom. I turn to the United Nations and find them playing a game that they can never win. And most bitterly of all I turn to face the hippies, the beatniks and all the other dropouts who profess to be lost souls, wandering in search of something to believe in. Yet all the time that lost ideal has been shining brightly in front of them...
Despite the furor over his selection, the Nixon people bravely profess their pleasure with the Maryland Governor. "If anyone visits all 50 states this year," says one, "it will be Agnew. He'll be seeing a lot of the country...
Such tactics produce mixed reactions. Many a woman considers a visit to Rome a failure without a pinch from a pappagallo. But others are outraged, or at least profess to be. "I'm sick of it," says one American girl. "Some of these Italian men are so puny and pathetic, they have to do something to prove they are men." Many girls have taken to wearing girdles for protection, only to have bottoms painfully bruised by girdlesnappers...