Word: swingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...massive blue-collar vote. In Boston's working-class districts, for example, Humphrey tallied 74% of the vote to Wallace's 24%. In poorer white sections of Detroit, pre-election Wallace partisans flocked back to the Democratic Party, joining Negroes, suburban whites and elderly voters to swing Michigan's 21 electoral votes to Humphrey by 151,-000 votes. Many Wallaceites also defected in Southern and Border states upon which he had counted. "They all talked hard," said Republican State Chairman Bill Murfin of Florida, "but the softness was there, and in the last two weeks...
...believe that there's a swing to the right in this country," he went on. "There is a swing against the way things are. I'm not in favor of giving up on the system...
...others who meet regularly in Under Secretary of State Nicholas deB. Katzenbach's office; and the Eleven O'Clock Group, mostly lower-level officials assigned to draft the policymakers' decisions. Among all these officials, few supported the bombing of the North up to the end. The swing man, inclined first one way, then the other, was Lyndon B. Johnson...
...purchased without cost. The United States has paid for them with time, and in non-military terms, time has been costly indeed. Time has meant lives spent on both sides fighting a futile war we never should have entered. It has meant the alienation of youth and a general swing to the right in domestic politics. It has meant money which could have been going to out cities, the split of the liberal consensus, and the rupture of Democratic party...
...finally Rod Stewart. One of the very rare white blues singers worth listening to, he has some of the soul of Otis Redding, some of the swing of Sam Cooke, and some of the fervor of B. B. King -- all of which add up to make him a worthy performer in his own right. He is supple and responsive on stage and contributes just by his presence to the infectious gaiety of the group...