Word: unseat
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...there was overwhelming cooperation. Radicals joined with Kennedy liberals to support LBJ, believing that underneath his assertion to "support all the people," there was a resolve to start a liberal revolution. While Harvard SDS worked for Johnson, they also supported independent Noel Day in his campaign to unseat House Speaker John McCormack. Their campaign slogan expressed the radical mood: "Part of the Way with LBJ; the Rest of the Way with Noel...
High Price. A Berliner, Schütz studied politics at Harvard in the late '40s, returned to the U.S. in 1960 to observe the Kennedy-Nixon contest. He helped campaign for Willy Brandt in Brandt's unsuccessful attempt to unseat Konrad Adenauer in 1961. Brandt, who liked Schütz's work, sent him to Bonn as the city's special representative to the federal government. When Brandt became Foreign Minister last year, he brought Schütz along...
...Governor Evans calls it-is another bugaboo. The decaying cities and the exploding ghettos could develop into the biggest issue of all. Taken together, the problems are helping to build a formidable "anti" vote-the kind that helped Ike to defeat Adlai Stevenson, and Franklin Roosevelt to unseat Herbert Hoover...
...Folio offers, "This push/Will cheere me ever, or dis-eate me now." Among the conjectures are "disease," "disseize," "defeat," and "dis-ease." I myself like to understand "chair" (which was pronounced "cheer" then), with which "disseat" makes perfect sense. Houseman too settles on "chair" but follows it up with "unseat," which is obviously not acceptable. But let me spare you this ped-antic nit-picking, if you are still with...
...five state-wide weekly newspapers in five Deep South states. But that would have taken $75,000 to get going, and months of letter-writing, phone calls, and collections around Harvard produced only $35,000. They picked Alabama, where civil rights groups were planning massive voter registration campaigns to unseat Gov. George Wallace...