Word: staking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...here in South Dakota there are bigger issues at stake. The senatorial race is revolving around the state's entire conception of the role of the office of U.S. Senator...
...What's at stake in this election is whether a senator should be a national spokesman for South Dakota or an ombudsman, a letter-answerer," says George Cunningham, McGovern's campaign manager...
...That work must be done by the leaders of the U.S. with a measure of magnanimity, a major effort at clarity-and a great deal of coolness. It will take an immense interlocking effort of more efficient and enlightened law enforcement, social reform and moral leadership. What is at stake is more than just the present election; it is, in many ways, the quality of American society for years to come...
...EXPLAINING these failures, Draper's more theoretical analysis probably comes closer to their cause. The U.S., he reiterates, has clearly misconceived the nature of the struggle, and this country's stake in it. Draper places much of the blame on the remnants of the domino theory which, while officially out of favor, still works powerfully on the minds of voters and politicians...
...intelligent, and his prose, though sometimes wooden, is sturdy. What his brief suffers from most is-as he himself says-the fact that "I am by nature a transcendentally unemotional, matter-of-fact individual, the antithesis of what a man testifying in his own behalf, with his life at stake, should...