Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nonetheless, the idealists who have formed the core of his support look upon him as an incarnation of their aspirations. This is especially true among the young. Last week, when his staff sought to cut costs by "furloughing" 75 workers, most of them youngsters, the majority of them insisted on staying on without even the usual meal allowances. McCarthy draws much of his support from those hungry for a new kind of leadership, from some Republicans, and from independents of both conservative and liberal bent. For many in and around the New Left, an anti-war candidate sympathetic...
Full Stomach or Empty. Still, McCarthy has failed to capture all the anti-Humphrey Democrats, even after Kennedy's death. The failure of many Kennedy men to support him is due partly to lingering animosity from the primaries and partly to his essentially passive view of the Presidency. One prominent Kennedyite in search of a new flag had a talk with McCarthy and reported later: "From what he says, he'd turn the conduct of the office over to a committee and go off and read books. That scares the hell...
...major swing through the South. He managed to draw some friendly crowds while evoking no visible hostility. Yet his stop in a black neighborhood in Atlanta, like an earlier visit to Pittsburgh's Negro Hill district, displayed again his failure to stir black enthusiasm. Asked why black Democrats should support him instead of Humphrey, McCarthy replied: "I haven't really made much of an argument that they should, except that if we pursue the war, there's not enough money to take care of poverty programs in this country." A Negro offered an explanation of why McCarthy is not more...
...when the Russians organized a Communist coup in 1948. Last week Czechoslovakia's 14,300,000 citizens found themselves in a desperate situation once again, faced with a massive threat to their independence from the Soviet Union and its hard-lining allies. Despite verbal pledges of support from some of its Communist neighbors and muted cheers from the West, the country knew from experience that, whatever happened, it could expect no real help from the outside. In a moment of peril, it could rely only on its own political acumen, patience and resourcefulness as a nation...
...January." He called upon all Czechoslovaks to press forward to "develop socialism into a free, modern and profoundly humane society. Since the party cannot change the people, it must itself change." Then he made an open plea to the people: "What we need most now is the support of all of you at this critical moment...