Word: tides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only the Business School held out against the Democratic sweep. In a poll taken there by the Harbus News, Nixon floated to victory on a tide of more than two-thirds of the ballots cast...
...striking feature of the rising Kennedy tide has been the return to the fold by traditionally Democratic voters who switched to President Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956. The most important factor determining the state's political complexion has been Kennedy's religion, the "silent issue...
Something resembling a Stevensonian cult has formed around Bagwell. At Michigan State, some members of Delta Sigma Pi fraternity sold a pint of blood to swell the Bagwell campaign chest. The statewide Bagwell Boosters number 12,000 members, more than Michigan's Citizens for Eisenhower at highest tide. Negroes have formed an Elephant Club for Bagwell. In Wayne County, the strongest Democratic thralldom (67%) north of the Mason-Dixon line, 4,500 Working Women for Bagwell are ringing doorbells, penning postcards, phoning friends to drum up votes. The long-dormant Michigan Federation of Republican Labor, revolving around former A.F.L...
...students' appeals were sent to Washington, but the State Department flatly denied them. "The United States officials who forwarded the appeals," the Times reported, "have in some instances been dipping into their own pockets to help tide over the Africans." The report also noted that the students' home governments had cut some stipends and refused to pay passages home...
...Leader Jan Steytler: "This republic will make us an outcast people." Before the polls opened on election morning, long rows of anxious voters stood impatiently to cast their ballots. At first the overwhelmingly anti-government vote from the big cities indicated that the republic might be defeated. But the tide turned in favor of Verwoerd when the platteland returns began arriving. By nightfall, the Nats had a 74,000 majority, giving them 52% of the votes-even though statistics showed many of Verwoerd's own Afrikaners had voted...