Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...later tried to have him dumped as Dwight Eisenhower's running mate. In the interim, Nixon acquired a gut fighter's reputation that softened only after his forced retirement by defeats for the presidency in 1960 and the California governorship in 1962. Now he enjoys the active support of such diverse Republicans as Barry Goldwater and Jacob Javits, Strom Thurmond and Nelson Rockefeller...
...seemed a characteristic remark--an absurd refusal to concede that the very people that he is continually attacking don't really hate him. Marshall Frady, in his new biography of Wallace, describes Wallace's pathetic efforts to convince Alabama Negroes to support him, or at least to convince himself that they did: at one ponit, Wallace is quoted as telling a group of Negro educators, just before the 1966 campaign for governor, "Now I get out speakin' to folks, don't pay any attention to what I say, 'cause I'm gonna have to fuss...
...poll, taken in all Harvard and Radcliffe dining halls, showed Nixon's total dwarfed by the combination of the others. The Republican nominee drew his greatest strength from five Houses--Eliot, Winthrop, Quincy, Lowell, and Kirkland. Cleaver's strongest support came from Dudley, Adams and Dunster. He decisively defeated Nixon in the first...
...accused McCarthy of selling out, but some stated they thought stopping Nixon is not reason enough to support Humphrey, as McCarthy said in his endorsement speech. "It's not a question of the lesser two evils," one student said, "they're both too evil to vote...
...others stated that they would grudgingly support Humphrey as the only alternative to Nixon. Several students said Nixon's call for arms superiority had convinced them to turn to the Vice President. "I'll vote for Humphrey, but only because of what Nixon said about more military spending," one senior said...