Word: splits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McCarthy forces had entered only 24 candidates, one for each seat, while Johnson's support was divided among 34 candidates. The resulting split worked to McCarthy's advantage...
Although much is made of the conservative-liberal split between the two, they have rarely been in conflict on basic principles. When Rockefeller worked for Eisenhower as Under Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare and later as his Special Assistant for Foreign Affairs, he occasionally found an ally in Nixon against more conservative elements in the Administration. Certainly Nixon is at home with the congressional wing of the party, oriented toward the Middle West and limit ed government, while Rockefeller is of the Eastern Establishment, prone to look first toward the executive branch. Yet if during the '60s Goldwater...
Cities, like people, react to war in different ways. After a month of terror, Saigon has totally lost its old insular mood of relative peace and well-being and developed a bothersome split personality. By day, the South Vietnamese capital is struggling to regain a veneer of normalcy; by night, as artillery crashes in the suburbs and searchlights stab the sky, Saigon retreats to a mood of agonizing fear and foreboding, awaiting another Communist onslaught that most of its citizens feel is inevitable...
...leader and the professional advisor have to be clarified between them. They have to work together so that the advisor doesn't feel usurped by the day leader and the day leader doesn't feel put down or put himself down to the supervisor. If not, the group will split and form loyalties. This is where professionalism comes in--here, and in answering questions like "What is the effect of electroshock?" or "What does this drug do?" or "I want to get my patient out; who should I contact...
...IMPORTANT when my father got a nervous breakdown because then my family was split up. My mother was sick too and since we were a nice family, in most ways, we immediately found foster parents for the six kids. I lived in a lower middle class Italian-American family, very nice people. Three years preceding this I had become sort of a bookworm. So I get to this family and they expected me, since I was eldest, to lead the house and to be energetic. I was 13, just about 14. They expected more independence from me and I sorta...