Word: support
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...among four Democrats. Kentucky's Henry Clay and Georgia's William H. Crawford each won 13% of the popular vote, and their electoral votes were enough to deny a majority to Andrew Jackson, the popular winner with 152,933 votes (42.2%). In the House, Clay threw his support to the runner-up, John Quincy Adams, who had collected 31.9% of the popular vote. Clay's action made Adams President, and by no small coincidence, Clay became Secretary of State. Though Jackson later won two terms in the White House, his demands for direct election by the people...
...task of the Communist parties [abroad] is to support Soviet power, since the Soviet Union is the mainstay of the revolutionary movement in all countries...
...occupying troops," but their stories are anything but friendly. Rude Pravo reported with oblique subtlety that any agreements Dubček made in Moscow had been dictated by "unimaginably abnormal circumstances," conducted a quick public-opinion poll that showed that Dubček and his reforms had overwhelming popular support...
...facing a former priest is finding a job. For some, this task is still a very difficult one. Stripped of the comforting shelter of parish life, the secularized cleric is transferred, in the words of one ex-priest, from "total security to total insecurity." Many have no means of support. Others have too willingly settled for the first menial job that comes along. Their training, often exclusively in theology, is not exactly a marketable commodity...
...help doctors raise their prescription skills, the Lee committee recommended federal financial support for expanded teaching about drugs in medical schools. It also proposed publication of a national drug compendium in which all lawfully available drugs would be listed, along with their effects, both good and bad. And it advocated compilation of "objective guidelines" to help doctors tailor their prescriptions to the patient's needs...