Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York, Tammany Boss J. Raymond ("the Fox") Jones and his Republican counterpart agreed to make the judicial nomination bipartisan. Such pacts were originally justified by the argument that they freed judgeships from domination by one party or party boss. On a practical basis, they also gave both parties a share of the patronage...
...unpopularity of the President's position, and dissatisfaction with the war in general, will appear in two forms in this year's elections: as a general reduction in the Democratic Party's share of the vote, and in individual contests where the war is the main issue. Even without the war, Democrats would have been hard pressed to maintain their 1964 level of popularity. Numerous Congressmen, and state and local officials were swept into office on the LBJ landslide. Without Barry Goldwater, many of these Democrats would automatically have been in trouble. Now they must face the fact that...
Asked why selective-service rejects should not be obligated to share in civil-defense programs, Hershey replied that he did not oppose a "wider range of training." But he added that inducting men for "any but military service has to be looked upon very suspiciously." Hershey rejected outright a suggestion by Committee Chairman Lucius Mendel Rivers of South Carolina that the induction-age ceiling be lowered from 26; in fact, he favors raising the ceiling to include single men and childless husbands...
This was mostly wishful thinking, but not entirely; for all their fissiparous differences, most peoples of Asia do share attitudes and traditions that set them apart from the Western world-or, more specifically, from the modern world...
...eyed Moshe Dayan's gravestone will read THE HELL YOU SAY. He has more than one man's share of that tough, nose-thumbing certitude that makes the sabra (native-born Israeli) so exasperating, yet so fascinating. An unorthodox military genius who lost the illusions of childhood at twelve, when he took up a gun against Arab marauders in the Negev, Dayan in this book is thumbing his nose again. Only this time, it is not at the Arab world but at some of his own people...