Word: wal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months, dissidents of the pro-Wal-lace right and antiwar left threatened to fragment the nation's two-party alignment. The Alabamian, it was feared, would sunder the New Deal coalition of labor, Negroes and ethnic minorities by luring away hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers; disaffected Dem-ocrats-and most Negroes-would sit out the election in disgust or apathy. Richard Nixon predicted confidently that a "silent center" would rise up with an overwhelming mandate for the Republican Party...
Former Common Market Chief Wal ter Hallstein mused aloud on whether the Soviets might not succeed in reducing West Germany to the status of a second Finland-fearful, quiescent and accommodating. Seeking to avoid any words that might provoke the Russians, Kiesinger repeatedly edited and rewrote his Bundestag speech. As he explained to his associates: "We must not hold a lighted match under the tail of an already enraged bear...
...Wal, it's spring and the sap is runnin' high at Disney's. They've perduced melliferous live-action pitchers 'fore Family Band, but this'n could be cut up and used for flypaper-and mebbe ought...
Mahoney thus bid unabashedly for the anti-integration elements that gave Alabama's racist Governor George Wal lace an astonishing 42.7% of the popular vote when he ran for Maryland's 1964 presidential nomination. Mahoney exploited white apprehensions stirred by black-power demonstrations in Baltimore last summer, capitalized as well on congressional resistance to the open-housing clause of the President's 1966 civil rights bill. His slogan: "Your Home Is Your Castle-Protect...
...COUPLE. Art Carney and Wal ter Matthau are roommates in Neil Si mons hilarious study of two men who thought they couldn't live with their wives- until the tried living with each other...