Word: strengthing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, as the G.O.P. adopted a new, stolid-looking elephant silhouette as a party symbol to convey strength, Nixon again allowed himself to be put into a posture of vacillation and weakness. The issue, in isolation, was hardly a major one -the appointment of an Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. But the job had been vacant since the new Administration took office, though HEW Secretary Robert Finch had selected Dr. John Knowles in January. After a final week of embarrassing indecision, the Administration yielded to the concerted pressure...
Nixon promised a resolution of the matter by last week, saying that the decision would be Finch's. On Tuesday, the White House agreed to go ahead with the nomination. Knowles later told a friend: "It was all signed, sealed and delivered." Then, unexpectedly, the opposition gained fresh strength and pressed with renewed vigor for the White House to withdraw Knowles. House Republican Leader Gerald Ford, who had been quietly opposing the appointment, and Texas Republican Senator John Tower reminded Nixon of the A.M.A. campaign contributions. Other Republicans echoed Ford's opinion that "there must be somebody less...
...constructing lower cost housing, we must adopt a "performance standard" building code, specifically the BOCA code which has received considerable national attention and has already been adopted by a number of localities. This code, rather than limiting construction to a select few methods, sets up minimum standards of strength, durability and safety. Then any system of building which meets those standards can be accepted for use in the city. It is an inclusive rather than exclusive code. It is my feeling that we must be inclusive in an effort to explore every avenue that will drive down the cost...
Conservative romanticism has been with us for a while--an example is any form of hero-worship, the idea that the best government is that which in an orderly fashion gives strength to the best governor...
...Credulity," Charles Lamb observed, "is the man's weakness, but the child's strength." The principal ingredient of The Fool Killer is false belief-in the evanescent ghosts of folklore that are part of a boy's education and a grownup's destruction...