Word: voter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Verba received the Woodrow Wilson award for "The Changing American Voter," a book showing how voters in the last 20 years have moved away from political parties to become more independent, he said...
...being down, but the victim is responsible for us getting up." Jackson has called for neighborhood volunteers to replace police in patrolling ghetto schools and street corners, has launched a drive for black parents to monitor strictly their children's homework and schooling, and has urged that voter registration cards be handed to each high school graduate along with a diploma. Says he: "Nobody will save us from...
...person's address does not match the address on the registration form, it is required by law to send the voter a "drop notice." Unless the voter returns the notice by a certain date, he is removed from the city's registration list...
Jones wheeled around behind Treasury, looking approvingly at the tourists all lined up to visit the White House. "Honk, honk," went a car. "Hey," yelled an occupant, "he's the Congressman from Tulsa!" Well, I'll be darned-a voter, thought Jones, waving back with a grin. He whizzed down the last block of Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House. Checked his watch. Seventeen minutes for the trip...
...injured ankle and a nagging cold to make a two-week, 4,000-mile swing through the country, which attracted large crowds. By contrast, Cosgrave, son of a former Irish Free State Prime Minister, carried on what amounted to a noncampaign. Shy and intensely private, Cosgrave avoided pressing voter flesh as much as he could. The Prime Minister approached politicking, teased London's Sunday Times, rather in the way that Irishmen traditionally regard drinking and sex-the thing has to be done but a man should not look as if he took pleasure...