Word: swingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jangles & Bristles. It was a long leap from the days of bliss and blarney to the days of Ike, Nixon and Lodge, and before the moment of victory Jack Kennedy allowed himself to doubt that he might make it. In the final swing of the campaign, the Kennedy troupe was showing the frazzled edges of fatigue, even unaccustomed confusion. The motorcades in Connecticut and New York were dogged with inefficiency and out-of-kilter schedules ; so furious was Kennedy at one point that he stomped about in his Manhattan hotel room, called in his weary aides and chewed them...
...them, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia had 31 electors-only five for Kennedy, and 26 "unpledged." The predawn dream: perhaps neither candidate would get a majority, and the Deep South could throw the election into the House of Representatives, where each state would have one vote, and the South could swing to the candidate who offered the softest deal on civil rights...
...support of Republicans like Clifford Case to break the conservative group's strangle-hold on progressive legislation. In spite of this, the wide Democratic margins in both houses were left intact, and it is hoped that Kennedy will use the full powers of his new office to swing his fellow Democrats behind his own programs. But it is unfortunate that Kennedy himself, and liberals all over the country, did not gain a more decisive majority of the national electorate...
...cope with Khrushchev and keep the peace-had failed to stir any surge among the voters. The whiff of recession in the autumn air was weakening the second half of the G.O.P. "peace and prosperity" claim. Most worrisome of all was the mounting evidence of a wide Roman Catholic swing to Democrat Jack Kennedy in the big industrial states. The Kennedy camp, groaned a Nixon aide after the huddle in Hartford, "has cohesed the Catholic vote in a bloc more successfully than we had supposed was possible...
Positive Thinking. Then, in mid-September, the luck of the campaign changed and dealt Nixon's prospects two jolting blows. First came the flare-up of the religion issue. Mindful that a massive Roman Catholic shift to Kennedy in the big-electoral-vote Northern states could swing the election, Nixon gave orders down through the ranks that the religion issue was not to be mentioned. But a group of 150 Protestant clergymen and laymen, headed by New York's Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking) met in Washington to toss a headline-making anti-Catholic...