Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate or the governorship in 1970, but both George Murphy and Ronald Reagan seem to like their current roles, and will probably seek reelection. Finch, 43, must either return home to tend to his political power base or come to Washington and risk losing the California support that some Republicans think might propel him to the G.O.P. presidential nomination...
Marvin ("Buddy") Mandel, 48, speaker of the house of delegates, state Democratic chairman and the man who most helped Agnew to govern successfully, has the inside track on replacing him. In fact, Agnew may even quietly urge Maryland's 33 G.O.P. legislators (v. 152 Democrats) to support Mandel, who helped him to enact income tax reform and an open-housing bill as well as to repeal Maryland's antimiscegenation law. A quiet veteran of 17 years in the legislature, Mandel appoints all house committees, signs all bills, and presides over its sessions with a composure that only rarely...
...markets had been gathering, set off by rumors that West Germany's healthy Deutsche Mark would be revalued. Speculators hastened to sell their francs for marks, and during that period a total of some $1.7 billion in francs was sold, forcing France to use its gold reserves to support the parity of its currency. The run stopped only when the world's currency markets were closed down for three days to give the West's industrial nations, the so-called Group of Ten, a chance to solve the crisis. After three days of almost nonstop sessions...
...demonstration is to rally support for our position, not to protest the Dean's action," he said. SDS will remain outside the building, he said, and make no attempt to enter the building or the meeting...
...unbeatable System. They intimidated the participants and even the audience into playing their way; no blow was too low. Throughout the afternoon of rehearsing, they utilized oppression by numbers, deploying hordes of little men in tight black suits who had no function other than being more people, adding support to whatever the authorities said and subtracting courage from whatever impulses of defiance the dazed team members could muster. The one assigned to shunt us from room to room had just the faintest suggestion of eyes beneath foot-thick glasses with huge black plastic frames. The curl of his lips when...