Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...terms for a governor. He needed a dramatic issue, and he needed the red-neck votes of segregationist eastern Arkansas. Beyond that, there were indications that Faubus was being used by segregationist politicians in the South. From Georgia's raucous Governor Marvin Griffin, who spoke at a Little Rock dinner last month, came loud praise for the Arkansas "preservator of the peace."- At almost the very moment that Griffin used that pretentious solecism, Faubus was using exactly the same word to describe himself...
...Orval Faubus' own state he was far from being acclaimed. For the first time in years, Little Rock's rival newspapers agreed in denouncing Faubus' folly. Arkansas' conservative Senator John McClellan was carefully noncommittal about the wisdom of Faubus' action. Arkansas' liberal Senator William Fulbright, a wholehearted Faubus supporter in the past, refused to answer his phone, packed up his bags and took off for London and a meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. The officers of adopted Arkansan Winthrop Rockefeller's industry-seeking Arkansas Industrial Development Commission said priva;te-ly that...
...militia the me-lish-ee. but he talked big about running for a third term (which no Arkansas governor has had since 1905) and even acted as if he would like to move into bigger political hills. Said one observer of Orval Faubus' disastrous grandstanding in Little Rock last week: "It seems to be a case of a little sophistication being a dangerous thing...
...meet Faubus' challenge by: 1) issuing a court order to Faubus to show cause why he should not be held in contempt for having obstructed the integration orders of U.S. courts; 2) issuing a court order to Faubus to stand down the Arkansas National Guard from the Little Rock Central High School; 3) citing Faubus for contempt. Beyond that, it would be open to the U.S. to withdraw recognition from the Arkansas guard as a part of the federal military establishment, implying a cutoff of the $5,500,000 annual federal subsidy and a recall of federal-issue uniforms...
...loudly in public places, telling the British who won the war, chewing gum [and would] dress properly, throw away their cameras, move their air bases out of England, settle the desegregation problem, turn over the hydrogen bomb to Britain, put the American woman in her proper place, not export rock 'n' roll, and speak correct English...