Word: strengthing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anti-Humphrey liberals, the war is the most passionate rallying cry, but not the only one. Having received the nomination on the strength of the urban machines and the big wheels of organized labor, Humphrey suffers from guilt by association. Martin Stone, a McCarthy leader in California, says of Humphrey's future: "He's finished. Nothing is going to change that. The old buffaloes are on their last legs." California's former Governor Pat Brown, an orthodox liberal of the Humphrey stripe, laments: "It's a bad day for guys like me who have worked...
Some Democrats look beyond November in search of new strength. In Atlanta, former Congressman Charles Weltner, seeking election after two years of voluntary retirement, talks of a coalition of "people concerned with the development of human potential"-educated professionals, "enlightened" businessmen, Negroes, the progressive elements of organized labor, moderate Southerners, new voters. In California, Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh looks for a similar grouping and adds another target: liberal Republicans who could be weaned from the G.O.P...
...Nixon emerges with the most votes, popular and electoral, in the three-man race. Humphrey follows, but Wallace has amassed enough electoral strength to deny both men the presidency. Nixon and Humphrey refuse to bargain for Wallace's electoral votes. The election therefore goes to the House, where the Democrats have retained control of 27 state delegations. At the same time, the Senate meets to name a Vice President. There, the Democrats have retained control, 53 to 47. The rules eliminate the No. 3 candidate: out goes Curtis LeMay, the Wallace running mate. And enough Southern Democrats follow party...
...colors, the adjectives and adverbs, often garbled the conversation to an incoherent babble. Only in his last years did Kline make color do his bidding. Orange and Black Wall, one of his later paintings, lunges upward and off the canvas like a giant rocket, rising up on the strength of its flaming boosters. Red Painting mounts an enigmatic black rectangle in a morning-red sky that endows it with a warning eloquence and precision...
...boxes in his imagination for fear of its strength: he is afraid to govern himself, and so seeks a quiet world in a sterile niche of hierarchy. Thus he becomes his own captor and exploiter, and buries his dreams. Stage-fright soon makes spectators...