Word: quos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...replies that Moses, Jesus, Lou Gehrig and Joe Namath all were emotional. His statements suffer from a poverty of ideas and often boil down to a vague assertion that Lindsay's good intentions have disturbed the peace and that what is really needed is a reversion to the status quo ante of the twelve Wagner years, but Robert Wagner himself has so far refused to endorse Procaccino. Even some of the most orthodox Democrats feel that he may lack the stature to be mayor of New York...
...Maoist tendency). This bitterly divided house held together until 1965 when the French Communist Party, scizing an opportunity to gain in the national parliament, supported the non-communist candidate for President, Francois Mitterand. The Trotskyists stomped out of the party Congress, denouncing the FCP as supporters of the status quo, and, holding their own Congress, declared the birth of the Jeunesse Communiste Revolutionaire (JCR). Six months later the Maoists also quit and hoisted their banner, the l'Union des Jeunesses Communistes marxistes-leninistes (l'UJCm...
This hard core of conservative rural votes is supplemented by a large group of disgruntled emigrants from East Germany who feel the government has tacitly accepted the status quo and will leave relatives and friends under communist rule forever. To these votes are added the few Germans who are still anti-Semites or nationalists...
...church with his own kind?" Ford also attacked evangelical apathy (if not active opposition) toward social action in the U.S. "Christians have a stake in preserving historic truth," he acknowledged, "but since sin infects every man and institution, we need a holy discontent with the status quo. The Gospel calls for constant change. We cannot identify our Gospel with the past." On the other hand, warned Ford, the church should not be "the water boy of world revolution." Too many revolutions, he argued, "fail to grasp the heart of the problem, which is the problem of the human heart. They...