Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democratic campaign enters its final weeks, Humphrey has a superabundance of delegate votes but a surprising lack of popular support. Robert Kennedy would have been mobbed in Hough; Humphrey was scarcely noticed. Eugene McCarthy attracts the young and active; Humphrey's audiences tend to be middle-aged and lethargic. The only ones who greet the Democratic front runner with anything like real friendliness and enthusiasm are Democratic politicians...
...Barry Goldwater in 1964, but Wallace-not Nixon -will get a good share of those Republican votes this year. In addition, the growing number of Negro and white-moderate voters should provide harmony for Hubert. In Louisiana, a huge Wallace vote is expected to hurt Nixon, as is anticipated support for Humphrey from the state's astute Governor John McKeithen. North Carolina is one state where Wallace is expected to do as much damage to the Democratic as to the Republican candidate. But the black vote should tilt it Humphrey...
...again pleaded with Congress to "pass the gun-control measures which are needed to protect the American people against insane and reckless murder by gunfire." Congressional reaction was muted. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, under heavy pressure from Montana hunters to oppose gun-control legislation, compromised by repeating his support for a moderate law sponsored by Maryland's Joseph Tydings while rejecting Johnson's measure requiring the registration of all firearms in the U.S. Congressional mail, which had overwhelmingly supported tough gun controls after Senator Kennedy's death, once again responded to the gun lobby...
...Regular Rightfielder Al Kaline, eleven times an All-Star, has been out of action since May 25 with a broken arm. Third Baseman Don Wert is recovering from a concussion, the result of a scalping in Cleveland last week. Leftfielder Willie Horton (.287, 18 homers) wears a brace to support his weak Achilles tendon. All-Star Catcher Bill Freehan is playing with a sore arm. Outfielder Jim Northrup with a sore knee, and Centerfielder Mickey Stanley with a sore arm plus a sore knee...
...beginning, Lynd observes critically, there was a snake in Eden. "Property, property! That is the difficulty!" cried John Adams upon rereading Rousseau's The Social Contract in the White House. "It was indeed," Lynd echoes. Even the radicals of 1776, he laments, believed that the best way to support individual freedom was by guaranteeing the rights of "property rather than conscience...