Word: tides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leaders from the catastrophe of 1964 are veterans of the moderate wing. Some were not up for re-election and were essentially unscarred by the Democratic juggernaut-such as Governors Scranton and Rockefeller and former Vice President Richard Nixon. But of the G.O.P. candidates who breasted the anti-Goldwater tide, the strongest man in sight is Michigan's Governor George Romney, who won re-election in spite of an overwhelming Democratic victory in his state. If Romney wants to make a bid for the 1968 presidential nomination, his credentials will be impressive. His business background as president of American...
...found to be high in their references to ideals, but three words--"free," "freedom," and "liberty"--accounted for more than one-third of Goldwater's references. Stone reported that Goldwater used these words 40 times and in all but two cases he used them without modiflers, as in "The tide is running against freedom...
...Gallup poll for the first time last week reported the Conservatives ahead, thus making unanimous the swelling Tory tide that Britain's two other public opinion surveys noted weeks ago. But at the same time Gallup oddly confessed that a random survey taken to double-check its scientific sample showed the opposite-Labor still slightly ahead-and the bookmakers agreed. Which presumably left it still anybody's race...
...equally obvious, though, that most Americans revere the Court, however little they understand it. Unlike 1937, the Court is now riding a national tide rather than trying to turn it. A recent Gallup poll shows a 3-to-2 national majority supporting reapportionment. Once again Dissenter Black has triumphed, for it was he who argued against Frankfurter back in 1946, when the Court rejected a reapportionment case as too "political...
Faced with a rising tide of criticism, Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri decided that he needed to get away from his desk for some hard political barn storming. Last week he flew to Calcutta to make his first public appearance outside New Delhi since he took office...