Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon has won the overwhelming support of the nation's press. By the end of last week, 483 daily papers with a total circulation of 20.7 million had come out for him editorially; this week, LIFE endorses him. Humphrey, by contrast, has been endorsed by 93 newspapers with a circulation of 3.9 million...
...have misjudged the temper of the unions. Ignoring police warnings of risk, the mayor persisted in filling a speaking engagement in Brooklyn only to be routed by a hostile audience stacked with striking teachers and angry parents. The city's Central Labor Council threw its full support behind the teachers, poured 40,000 people into a demonstration at City Hall. The mayor tried to take out his frustrations in tennis, explaining to a newsman: "I had to get rid of my H.I. -that means 'hostility instincts.' " At week's end came yet another threat...
...have stirred the revolutionary feelings of the commandos, or fedayeen, who are adamantly opposed to dealings of any sort with Israel. They wield political power in Jor dan far out of proportion to their numbers, which probably total no more than 5,000 active terrorists. They have the fervent support of Jordan's 700,000 displaced Palestinians, who owe no particular allegiance to the Hashemite Hussein, and the open sympathy of many officers in the Jordanian army...
...thought some public personages might speak out publicly, but they did not. I was faced with the choice of acting on my own or keeping silent. For me to have kept silent would have meant joining those who support the action with which I did not agree. That would have been like lying. If I had not done this, I would have had to consider myself responsible for the error of our government. Feeling as I do about those who kept silent in a former period [the Stalin era], I consider myself responsible...
...DANIEL (to the judge): The prosecutor ended his summation by suggesting that the verdict will be supported by public opinion. I, too, have something to say about public opinion. I do not doubt that public opinion will support this verdict as it would approve any other verdict. The defendants will be depicted as social parasites and outcasts and people of different ideologies...