Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vote, has a President received so small a share as Nixon has. And no other modern President has been elected to a first term to confront a Congress controlled by the opposition. Although the G.O.P. gained Senate strength, its progress toward domination of the House was surprisingly slight. The 91st Congress will be in Democratic hands...
President Nixon will face a Senate that retains its Democratic majority and liberal bent, though both in membership and temperament it has undergone a slight shift to the right. The Republicans gained a net of at least four seats, reducing the Democrats' edge from 63-37 to 59-41?or perhaps even 58-42. The G.O.P. picked up seats in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida, Maryland, Arizona and Oklahoma, and was close to another in Oregon. The Democrats toppled Republicans in California and Iowa. The new Senate will be a little more conservative in dealing with federal spending and controls, civil...
Perhaps the biggest break with political tradition came in turbulent Puerto Rico, where the ironhanded 28-year reign of Luis Mu�oz Mar�n's Popular Democratic Party was rudely shattered by millionaire Luis A. Ferr�, 64, a "statehood" Republican whose New Progressive Party was formed only last year. Slight and elegantly tailored, Ferr� defeated the P.D.P. candidate Luis Negr�n L�pez, thanks to a diversion of popular votes to Governor Roberto Sanchez Vilella. Ferr� is unabashedly pro-American; the art museum that he founded and funded in his native Ponce was designed to symbolize the interaction...
...boys get out so I can go home?" said the white woman cashier. Unfortunately, the "boys" happened to be delegates to the annual conference of the National Committee of Black Churchmen, which was being held in the hotel. In protest against what they considered a racial slight, the 400 black ministers attending the meeting stalked out of the Gateway and finished their convention in an Episcopal church. The incident typified not only the touchy militancy of the conference but, in general, the mood of Negro Christian clergymen who enthusiastically support the contemporary secular demand for Black Power. Black caucuses have...
...cold-war politics set aside, the book presents some special difficulties, especially for American readers. No country has had more secondhand exposure to sickroom scenarios than the U.S. It is not, as one might expect, recollections of The Magic Mountain or nostalgia for Arrow smith that lends a slight feeling of familiarity to some of Cancer Ward's harrowing episodes. It is an unliterary acquaintance with those romans-fleuves of the air waves, TV's medical melodramas. Most Americans have seen it all already-the devoted old doctor who sees the symptoms of a dread disease but neglects...