Word: uses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hours after Robert F. Kennedy became an open rival for the presidency, Johnson launched a massive counterattack. During a week whose pace and tempo seemed more attuned to the windup of a bitter election than to its opening hours, the President made it clear that he was prepared to use all of his immense powers and political wiles to thwart his adversary...
Dirksen's assault on the ethics package was all too successful. Clark and Case narrowly passed another amen ment restricting the use of Senate "slush funds," only to have it overturned next day by a substitute, sponsored by Tex as' Ralph Yarborough, giving sanction to the practice of accepting contributions to run Senators' offices - the sort of practice that Illinois' Charles Percy abandoned last fall because of unfavor able publicity...
...Negroes, led by Playwright LeRoi Jones, trooped into the Newark city council chamber to confront Imperiale's vigilantes attending a routine council session. When a phonograph played the national anthem, the Negroes refused to stand and the whites cried: "Throw the bastards out!" Jones, arguing against the proposed use of police dogs in the ghetto, told the council: "Our rational plea to this community is to avoid the emotional issue of dogs. Whether you own Newark or not, nobody can sell ashes...
...Proportion. Warned in advance by Egyptian intelligence, most of the 2,000 Arab commandos who use Karamah as a training base had pulled back into the surrounding hills to snipe at the oncoming Israelis. Inside, some 200 guerrillas stayed on to defend the town. Outnumbered and outgunned, 110 perished in a series of sharp house-to-house firefights; another 100 Arabs were taken prisoner. Frustrated in their hopes of entrapping the entire force, the Israelis quickly pulled out, but had to fight their way back to Israeli territory...
...State Democrats have agreed to help McCarthy's workers as a show of party unity. "We are all Democrats," says Keith Clifford, vice-chairman of the Youth Campaign for LBJ. "McCarthy people can use the room and equipment, but Johnson people get first priority--since the party's paying the rent...