Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Former Presidential aide McGeorge Bundy began to shed some of his hawkish plumage on Saturday--advocating an unconditional halt to the bombing of North Vietnam by next year at the latest and a unilateral withdrawal of at least 100,000 American troops from South Vietnam...
...reeled garrulously from one position to another, Nixon glided over issues with skillfully pleonastic evasions, often taking no stand at all. A whole generation of under-35 voters in the U.S. knows little and cares less about the old "Tricky Dick" label that Nixon has sought so hard to shed. Yet the image could well be revived if Nixon does not demonstrate that he has some guiding principles and that his positions are not entirely dictated by the latest polls of the public's mood...
Many of the crocodile tears being shed are a manifestation of the losers' syndrome that would brand Agnew as a racist and Humphrey as a rightist, both of which are blatant nonsense...
Jesse Unruh, who sports the longest sideburns in the game, is the old pro converted to the new politics. Once the literal Big Daddy of California's Democratic machine, Unruh has shed 90 lbs. since he fell in love with dissent; he now chairs the 172-member delegation that won a three-cornered primary contest in support of Robert Kennedy against groups committed to McCarthy and to Humphrey. Unruh is uncommitted and angry. Through cigar smoke: "The gap between political leadership and the people is widening at the very time it ought to be narrowing...
...businessmen, skilled laborers, housewives and church workers into the slums of one of the nation's otherwise most serenely sunny cities, Phoenix. The Rev. Gavin Griffith, 31, ran his poverty war college with the strategic aim of simply stirring the conscience of his students. Some of the outsiders shed their uniforms (ties and suits), strolled the streets on the wrong side of the Southern Pacific railroad tracks, where rickety houses lean against each other, and whiffed the foul breath of penury. Nine businessmen rode with cops as they checked vagrants in "the Deuce," a neighborhood of filthy flophouses. Some...