Word: smile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Goldwater smiled a tight smile at the faithful, but he did not break his stride. Long the rising Senate spokesman of Republican conservatives-and, to his irritation, of wild-eyed fringe groups as well -Barry Goldwater found himself in the national eye as he spoke out in wrath against the Nixon-Rockefeller platform agreement ("Governor Rockefeller," he told the Arizona delegation, "is out to destroy the Republican Party"). By convention's end, Goldwater, in some imperceptible investiture, had been crowned king of the nation's conservatives just as surely as Dick Nixon won the nomination...
...smile of victory on Rockefeller's face guaranteed that Rocky would endorse the party's platform and campaign for the party's ticket, helping Nixon's chances of carrying New York, with its hefty 45 electoral votes. And by working out a truce with Rockefeller, Nixon had tugged loose his restraining anchor in the Eisenhower Administration; barred by his position as Vice President from speaking out freely on issues, he had let Nelson Rockefeller speak...
Armed with the Kennedy smile and the Kennedy confidence, the hopeful nominee made his businesslike way to Los Angeles...
After their meeting, Kennedy told the press with a smile: "Governor Freeman will be in the front line of those considered. Too young? I don't think youth is a calamity. We're all going to get over it." All the while, the forces of Missouri's Stu Symington were being tempted to abandon the presidential race by well-floated rumors of Stu's potential vice-presidential strength. Though Symington himself held fast, Missouri's Governor Jim Blair set the stage for Stu by grabbing the microphone after the presidential balloting and moving...
...often been Nye Bevan's bitterest foe. When Gaitskell recalled some of Nye's fierce sallies, including the attack on Churchill when he cried that he welcomed the "opportunity of picking the bloated bladder of lies with the poniard of truth," Churchill gave a fleeting smile of remembrance and made a gracious bow toward the speaker...