Word: steers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kerner Commission Report [on civil disorders] we pointed out that this polarization of extreme forces would occur. The centrists and the moderates have to keep fighting to keep the extremist elements from colliding head on and killing each other. That's what democracy is all about-trying to steer a middle peaceful course between chaos at one end and tyranny at the other...
...face has changed. Only a year and a half after his operations, he's doing seventh-grade work. He still has a bit of trouble with his right hand, but he's learned to drive a tractor and he looks after his own cattle -20 head of steer-and he's learned to do his own bookkeeping...
...This can be made to oscillate in different directions under the control of an external magnet on alternating current. As the tip vibrates, it pulls clear of the artery's walls, leaving them undamaged, and "swims" forward. When the magnet is powered by direct current, it helps to steer the device...
Essentially, Nixon is trying to steer between the crass appeals to animosity of Wallace and the orthodox liberal approach of Humphrey. Eschewing concrete proposals, Wallace aims at his listeners' gut feeling that crime must be quashed by any means available. Nixon attempts to sound both alarmed and controlled at the same time, but the element of alarm seems to be winning out. He cites the FBI figures without qualification: "If the present rate of new crime continues, the number of rapes and robberies and assaults and thefts in the U.S. today will double...
...With all that, Republicans and Southern Democrats were in a strong position to block the appointment with a filibuster. Hubert Humphrey challenged Richard Nixon to call Republicans off the filibuster, so that the case could come to a vote, which Fortas would probably win. Nixon refused, but tried to steer a middle course that would not overly displease either liberals or conservatives. He called Fortas an able jurist, expressed his own distaste for a filibuster, but said that he did not want to interfere with a Senate matter...