Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...asking McCarthy to make the run with him, despite the fact that under the Constitution, Minnesota's ten electoral votes might be jeopardized, since they could not go to two residents of the same state. McCarthy is not now considering the matter, has even refused to promise his support should Humphrey get the nomination...
...very magnitude of their first-round success made the Gaullists worry that their supporters might grow complacent about the final round of balloting. In an effort to persuade them not to flit off to the country and the beaches on vacation instead of staying around to vote, the Gaullists kept up the pressure. "Do not relax! The battle is not yet won," exhorted Pompidou. "Finish them off; yes finish off those who are in the camp of revolution and negativism." At weeks end, in a final appeal for support Charles de Gaulle spoke to the French on television and radio...
...Gaulle's other traditional supporters felt much the same way. French women, who vote first and foremost for stability, again turned out in force to cast their ballots for the general's men. The conservatives who have something to conserve-big businessmen, the landowners, investors-remained true Gaullists. De Gaulle's forces picked up backlash support from farmers, small businessmen and the professional class, nearly all of whom reacted against the riots and strikes...
...replacement for the outgrown capital of Jamestown. It thrived until late in the Revolutionary War, when the rebel government, fearful of a British attack from the sea, moved the capital inland to Richmond. With only the College of William and Mary and a state insane asylum left to support the town, Williamsburg slowly declined into a sleepy bastion of seedy gentility...
Instead of aiming at the poor to build a movement, the campaign aimed at the white middle class for support for that nonexistent movement...