Word: shelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Opponent Joseph C. Shell, Los Angeles oilman and leader of the Republican minority in the state legislature, tuned his campaign to the G.O.P.'s right wing. "I've gotten sick and tired of calling people liberals when they're basically socialists.'' he said. Though not himself a member, Shell welcomed the endorsement of the John Birch Society. Nixon, in contrast, denounced the far-right-wing organization, called upon Republicans to get out of it. After the primary, news commentators called the outcome a "smashing victory on the comeback trail." But with 65% of the vote...
...basis of his primary performance, he is going to have to do some persuasive wooing among hard-Shell G.O.P. conservatives...
Nixon got started on the wooing while the votes were still being counted. He congratulated Shell on fighting a "good battle,'' said that "those who have supported Joe Shell will see that their differences with me are infinitesimal compared with their differences with Brown." Next day Nixon held a joint press conference with San Francisco's beefy, Greek-born Mayor George Christopher, G.O.P. nominee for lieutenant governor. Did the primary results add up to a defeat for the conservatives? a newsman asked. No, said Nixon. "I consider myself a conservative -a progressive conservative." Republicans v. Nixon. Loser...
...armed forces engaged in some of the bitterest fighting in Venezuela's modern history. Residents of Puerto Cabello, a city of 80,000 lying beside the nation's largest naval base 75 miles west of the Caracas capital, buried their dead and started to clean up their shell-pocked city. Official casualty figures for the military were 47 dead, 89 wounded. But unofficial estimates put the toll, including civilians, at more than...
...took only five minutes for Scottish Architect Basil Spence, standing in the bombed-out shell of Coventry Cathedral one day in 1950, to conceive a design for the new cathedral. "I knew my task was to design a new building linked to the old which would stand for the triumph of the Resurrection," Sir Basil wrote later. "The ruins were the Old Testament, the new cathedral would be the New. The idea of the design was planted in my mind and never changed." Last week Architect Spence stood again at Coventry, this time to watch the ceremonial consecration...