Word: undercutting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carswell candidacy. He confirmed that Dent had been informed of Carswell's plans, but says that was the limit of the White House's role. It is difficult to believe that Nixon, who built his comeback on party loyalty, would allow Cramer to be so undercut by Claude Kirk. It was Cramer who helped hold the Florida delegation for Nixon in the 1968 convention, after Kirk had switched to Nelson Rockefeller...
Students said they took over the administration offices because the college's canceling classes served to undercut the strike. "We feel we must demonstrate that the strike is still on, and we feel this action will strengthen the position of the negotiating team," an occupiers' statement said...
...streetfighting was to raise the cost of continuing the war in Vietnam. At the same time, radicals are trying to force liberal politicians out of their passive assent to war policies and into active opposition. But instead of setting up anti-war electoral campaigns. Wednesday's action will probably undercut liberal opposition to suppression of the radical movement. The further notion of the demonstration's leaders, that massing people in the streets will spring Bobby Scale from jail is hardly realistic. It is doubtful that even the widespread streetfighting predicted for coming weeks can affect his fate...
...distance may have afforded him a singularly clear vision. He is slow to paint anyone in unrelieved black. He describes middle-level bureaucrats, the same men who undercut his efforts at every turn in the Peace Corps, as victims of the Machine no less than himself. His condemnation of institutions rather than men may be equivocating from a radical's point of view. But the multi-dimensionality of the officials in Cowan's account (like Erich Hofmann, the "poor schlemiel of an ex-Luftwasfe pilot" who wanted to squelch all boat-rocking at least until he secured his U.S. citizenship...
There was a good chance that violence could have been avoided. Many other South Carolina communities have integrated peacefully. Responsible groups in Darlington County, where Lamar is situated, had worked actively for community acceptance of integration. But their efforts were undercut by officials seeking gain from racial turmoil. Most blatant was Congressman Albert Watson, a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor. Democratic Governor Robert McNair went on television Jan. 27 and told South Carolinians that "we've run out of courts, and we've run out of time, and we adjust to new circumstances." Watson gleefully accused...