Word: terme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Preservator. Why had Orval Faubus created the crisis? For one thing, Faubus recently began talking about running for a third term in a state that traditionally frowns on three terms for a governor. He needed a dramatic issue, and he needed the red-neck votes of segregationist eastern Arkansas. Beyond that, there were indications that Faubus was being used by segregationist politicians in the South. From Georgia's raucous Governor Marvin Griffin, who spoke at a Little Rock dinner last month, came loud praise for the Arkansas "preservator of the peace."- At almost the very moment that Griffin used...
...Preservator" is a modish term in Ku Klux Klan meetings in some parts of the South, generally relating to something Christlike...
...well-dressed fellow, took to dark suits with a white handkerchief sticking out of the breast pocket. He still spouted cliches ("A stitch in time . . ."; "An ounce of prevention . . .") and he still called the militia the me-lish-ee. but he talked big about running for a third term (which no Arkansas governor has had since 1905) and even acted as if he would like to move into bigger political hills. Said one observer of Orval Faubus' disastrous grandstanding in Little Rock last week: "It seems to be a case of a little sophistication being a dangerous thing...
...program (at the hands of Congress) and his party (at the hands of the Wisconsin electorate). Last week, at his final Washington news conference before he flew off to a long-awaited vacation at Newport, R.I., the President was asked -again-if he regretted running for a second term. His answer was a characteristic bit of Eisenhower philosophy...
...remarriage group," once composed almost entirely of widows and widowers, is now about 70% formed by divorced men and women. What's more, noted Monahan, "our divorce rate is being compounded by a repetitiousness of divorce among a divorce-prone population group." Sociologist Monahan's solemn term-of-the-trade for such multiple marrying: "sequential polygamy...