Word: terme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show a lack of appreciation of the personal sacrifices the President has made since 1956 when he bowed to Republican demands that he win for them a second term. D. ARTHUR New York City
...primary. Under such a system a candidate can trail in popular votes and be elected. In 1946, for instance, red-gallusty Gene Talmadge lost the popular vote to Opponent James V. Carmichael, 297,245 to 313,389, beat Carmichael in unit votes, 242 to 146, thereby won a fourth term as governor...
...midst of this clamor, President Chamoun has apparently decided to try to change the constitution so as to run for a second term this fall. The Nasser sympathizers seized on this issue to bolster their cause. One night last week a gang of gunmen sneaked up on the President's summer residence, empty at this time of year, and riddled it with bullets. The government banned all demonstrations and ordered all pictures of Nasser pulled down. There was a brief Cabinet crisis, in which Premier Solh shuffled his ministers in a faintly propitiatory manner...
...word coming more and more into Pentagon usage is "overkill"-a blunt but descriptive term implying a power to destroy a military target not once but many times more than necessary. On Defense Secretary Neil McElroy's desk last week lay the paper plans that will soon add up to a problem of overkill: each of the services is ready to offer one or more complete weapons systems, each one promising to achieve nuclear annihilation of Russian targets. McElroy's problem: How much is enough-or to put it another way, how many times...
...friends were surprised when Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus turned from a tolerant moderate into the racist who provoked last September's Little Rock rioting. They could only surmise that Faubus had decided to run for an almost unprecedented (for Arkansas) third term (TIME, Sept. 23). Faubus protested that he was just trying to keep the peace. Last week Orval Faubus announced that he will run for a third term...