Word: undercutting
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...achievement of a negotiated peace in Vietnam. The present Administration policy is not aimed in that direction, and its constant reiteration by the titular leader of the opposing party will do nothing to help change it. Instead, the use of Eisenhower as a vehicle for Johnson's policy will undercut any Republican in the next two years who proposes a Vietnam policy more oriented toward negotiations than the Administration's. And should any Republican attempt to run against the President in 1968 on a peace platform, Johnson will undoubtedly attack him by quoting Eisenhower...
...animals going into the Ark), seems to have directed disembodied voices in the serious scenes. Even Beck, the company's most polished performer, often appears unsure of what to do with his hands at dramatic moments. The power of the scenes, especially the ends of the three acts, is undercut...
...times its pre-Roosevelt size, Senator Byrd noted wryly: "I campaigned for the New Deal platform in 1932-and I'm still standing on it." Roosevelt and Byrd quickly became enemies; F.D.R. even tried to pre-empt all federal patronage in Virginia in a conspicuously unsuccessful effort to undercut the Senator at home. Byrd never again endorsed a Democratic presidential nominee. By maintaining a "golden silence," he helped Republicans carry the Old Dominion in every presidential election from 1952 until the Johnson landslide...
Saigon's sputtering Cabinet crisis flared again last week, and in its brief glare, Premier Nguyen Cao Ky began looking like an artful Asian politician. Once again the dissident Southerners in Ky's 26-man Cabinet tendered their resignations en masse. Their aim: to undercut Northern influence in the government and solidify a Southern bloc of soldiers and civilians for next year's national elections. The seven dissidents reasoned that Ky would do anything to avoid a messy internal dispute on the eve of the Manila Conference. "The general idea," said one Southern Cabinet Minister...
...Republican as a matter of course. They were Upstaters, and Upstaters voted Republican. Robert Kennedy in 1964 changed all that. Although he did not run particularly strong in the city (city liberals were, as usual, busy being finicky and discovering all the hidden virtues of the Republican candidate), he undercut Keating by actually carrying Upstate New York and losing the suburban counties by only 25,000 votes. By comparison, President Kennedy lost Upstate by 400,000 and the suburban counties by 150,000 in 1960. The Kennedy block apparently had little affection for Keating or other Republicans who seemed...