Word: tooism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...must first recognize America as it is." Brooke's views of the U.S. largely echo Lyndon Johnson's. He lists the three great domestic problems as poverty, civil rights and the plight of the cities. At the risk of being accused of me-tooism, he urges Republicans to devise remedies that surpass the Great Society's in both volume and efficacy...
Near the end of the 1964 presidential campaign, veteran Actor Ronald Reagan, co-chairman of the Goldwater forces in California, appeared over national television and delivered a 30-minute speech. In it, Reagan served up some uncompromising conservative logic, plus a devastating denunciation of the welfare state, G.O.P. me-tooism, and Communist appeasement. At the same time, he provided just about the only dramatic moments in the whole, dreary Goldwater campaign...
...tangled white curls were damp with perspiration; his face was pale. The pouches beneath his eyes were dark; his voice was hoarse but strong. "Too long have we ridden the grey ghost of me-tooism," he said. "When the roll is called, I shall cast my vote for Barry Goldwater...
...Clem Attlee's thin voice did not carry conviction. "Differences within our ranks," he said. "That has done us a lot of harm." The man responsible for the "differences," Rebel Aneurin Bevan, was ready to blame Labor's defeat on the party leadership's milksopping me-tooism, though his own divisive tactics and his class-hating rancor probably drove away more votes than his flaming oratory brought out. Bevan himself dropped more than 2,000 in his own coal-mining stomping ground at Ebbw Vale, and two of his disciples-Editor Michael Foot and Geoffrey Bing-were...
...many a Tory, this was revolutionary. Rab was accused of "me tooism," of "trying to amalgamate the Tory Party with the Y.M.C.A." Even Tories who had no quarrel with Rab's principles felt a distaste for putting Utopian plans on paper. But in local meetings and party conferences, the rank & file enthusiastically adopted Rab's policy papers. Tory Party membership nearly doubled in the space of a year. In 1951 the Tories came back to office. Their margin was narrow -in fact, Labor polled more votes while the Conservatives won a handful more seats. If they had failed...