Word: totemic
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...freedom of speech have been making their appearance more and more often in the subordinate clauses of the rhetoric of 1968 ("Although our nation has always cherished the right of dissent, we cannot...") and unhappily Hoover's call to repression is not just the babble of one senile totem...
When Frank Lausche was mayor of Cleveland in the early '40s, he sculpted his political totem in the form of a mugwump and named it antiboss. Through five terms as Governor and two as U.S. Senator, the conservative-minded Democrat was well served by his cult of independence, although party leaders from the White House to the Ohio state committee were frequently and understandably distressed...
...Klux Klan 40 years ago, also elected a Negro, Richard Hatcher, 34, as its mayor. As in Cleveland, white votes supplied the crucial margin. In Boston, a coalition of white and Negro voters chose moderate Mayoral Candidate Kevin Hagan White over Louise Day Hicks, who had become a totem of opposition to school integration...
Freshmen again this year will be wedged into temporary bleachers at the open end of the field. They are low men on the priority totem pole which goes strictly according to class...
...Reserve faces a fight; opposition to the latest proposal began building up even before the official announcement. But Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has succeeded in making some beneficial cuts in the past and shows no inclination to give up, despite the militia's status as a political totem...