Word: uses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heed to such feeling?especially at a time when George Wallace can he found soaring on gusts of middle-class discontent. Nixon adopted the old-style Southern strategy in the convention, extending it to put together a coalition of Southern, Border and Midwestern states; indications are that he may use a similar strategy to try to win the general election. This makes sense particularly if one bets that conservative sentiment will run wide and deep between now and Election Day, and by no means only in the South. This formula might lose Northeastern states?but it might also attract significant...
...position to take any course, for so far, at least, he has retained an uncommon degree of flexibility. Nothing in the platform, nothing he himself has said, binds him in an unalterable position. Within a few weeks the nation should be able to see how Richard Nixon intends to use his new strength...
...would be a real gangbuster. The black and the poor need rescue, but they "don't want to be a colony." Federal antipoverty efforts have not helped at all: "We have reaped from these programs an ugly harvest of frustrations, violence and failure." Therefore, urged Nixon, the Government must use its powers to "enlist in this battle the greatest engine of progress ever developed in the history of man: American private enterprise...
...destroyed in last year's Six-Day War, and Israel has had the virtual freedom of Jordanian skies ever since. This time, however, the Israeli overflight was far from routine. Angered by daily raids on Israeli-occupied territory by Jordan-based Arab commandos, Israel had decided to make use of its air superiority to strike back. El Fatah, the largest and most aggressive of the commando groups, had its operations headquarters in a half-acre grove of fig and olive trees just outside Salt. The Israeli jets were out to destroy it in the heaviest Israeli air raid against...
...very mention of photography has long repelled serious easel painters, despite the fact that Corot, Cézanne and Manet all made use of the camera. Corot got the idea for his blurry landscapes from seeing an early silver print. Cézanne used photographs for his self-portraits. Manet painted his famed Execution of Emperor Maximilian from a news photograph...