Word: watchdogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against the East, wooed two independent Senators into his party, and won the full parliamentary majority that he had lacked at the start. Along the way, he also broadened his support among military men, including Turkish President Cevdet Sunay, a career army general who is in effect the army watchdog over Demirel's government. Thus fortified, Demirel pressed ahead with his development program...
...stem from a fear that the new agency would be either too political to be worthwhile or would be too free- wheeling. One critic said that the problem of "who gets which requests answered first" would ruin the office's independence. Another said that "Congress must remain its own watchdog and that beefed-up committee staffs would be much more effective...
...back as 1809, Sweden invented just such a "people's watchdog" and gave him a name, ombudsman, which means representative. Sweden's current ombudsman, Alfred Bexelius, 63, is a unique national mediator who serves the public by prodding laggard civil servants. He and his ten assistants already have counterparts in Denmark, Finland, Norway and New Zealand. Britain recently joined the movement by appointing a "parliamentary commission," and agitation for the appointment of ombudsmen has suddenly become popular all over the U.S. So far, however, the word does not even appear in U.S. dictionaries...
Still, Agnew is bucking a 3-1 Democratic registration majority, and he could get his most troublesome opposition from foes of Mahoney. Pressman -- a liberal and Baltimore's fiscal watchdog -- could take several thousand Agnew votes in the city. And if a Sickles write-in campaign gets underway (there is a lot of talk about it), Sickles could easily push enough votes away from Agnew put Mahoney in the governor's chance...
Fulbright began the debate by downplaying his committee's move, arguing that since the CIA "plays a major role in the foreign policy decision-making process," it was only reasonable that the Foreign Relations Committee should be interested in it. A broadened-and by implication more alert-watchdog group, he claimed, would be but a "small step in the Senate's formal recognition of its duty to exercise a more comprehensive oversight of U.S. intelligence activities...