Word: swingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...victory that Mister Sam could rightly store in his treasure chest of memories, but it was a dark victory indeed. Essentially it was a fight of Democrats with Democrats, and it marked a decisive swing of power from the entrenched Southern Democratic conservatives to the urban liberal forces that have grown increasingly frustrated over Southern seniority. But the close vote reddened the sore of the split and emphasized the powerful resources of the conservatives even under intense pressure. The cold realists in John Kennedy's White House knew that the fight would have to be refought on every major...
...plans are for a series of demonstrations staged every Wednesday afternoon in an attempt to attract public concern. The group hopes to have a bill introduced in the legislature shortly which would revoke the funds for the shelter. Levin stated that he hoped the picketing this week would help swing Governor Volpe to the anti-shelter camp...
...vote with Rayburn. A pressure campaign organized by the National Association of Manufacturers, the American Farm Bureau Federation and other conservative lobbies deluged Congressmen with letters and telegrams urging them to vote against the Rayburn plan. With matching ardor, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. and the civil rights lobbies tried to swing votes to Rayburn...
...serving as the Kennedy-picked chairman of the committee to coordinate congressional and presidential campaigns. Making use of the detailed information in a fellow liberal's elaborate card file on Democratic Congressmen, Boiling exerted on each waverer the particular kind of pressure that seemed most likely to swing...
With the collegiate hockey season in full swing, the team that most experts rate the best in the U.S. has yet to use a single American. For that matter, the University of Denver's Coach Murray Armstrong has only one American to put on the ice-second-string Goalie Paul DiNapoli of Belmont, Mass. With the exception of DiNapoli. every player on Denver's 20-man squad is a Canadian...