Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Plagued by the elusive support for George Wallace and harried by a remarkably high proportion of voters who angrily refused to discuss their choice, the nation's major pollsters went into Election Day under a cloud of acrimony. George Gallup and Louis Harris had been markedly far apart for weeks on their reports of Hubert Humphrey's strength. In late September, Gallup placed the Democratic nominee 15 percentage points behind, while Harris consistently pegged Humphrey much closer, sometimes only half as far back...
Forgotten Strengths. Chosen to assure Nixon Southern support at Miami Beach, Agnew was assigned the task of appealing to the potential Wallace vote. He began the drive with the standard spiel on law and order, but as the weeks passed, he grew progressively more abrasive. At times, except for the accent, he might have been mistaken for Wallace himself, making use of such Wallace-like expressions as "phony intellectual." In the end, though Agnew may have hurt Nixon overall, he appears to have helped him win critically important Border states...
...Beach that Nixon actually hung up on him in the middle of a furious phone conversation. A Nixon landslide would have left Percy in political limbo. As it is, the G.O.P.'s narrower victory improves Percy's chances somewhat, but not much; he may have trouble mustering support for re-election to the Senate in 1972 from Illinois Republicans of a less liberal stripe...
...pause, Thieu seemed to go along with the U.S. plan. Then he hardened his stand, bluntly barring South Viet Nam's participation in the Paris talks. His defiance made him a hero at home. The often critical and divided South Vietnamese press praised him. In a show of support, some 50 members of the National Assembly paraded to the presidential palace, shouting pro-Thieu slogans and waving red-and-yellow national flags. Groups of demonstrators in Saigon carried banners reading THE PEOPLE ARE UNITED TO KILL THE COMMUNISTS AND SAFEGUARD THE COUNTRY...
Even Thieu's political opponents rallied to his side. "For one year you have asked me to give the President full support," snapped Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, Thieu's most powerful rival, to a U.S. diplomat. "Now I'm going to give the President full support...