Word: weaker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many Republican officials in such important industrial states as New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio and Illinois are convinced that Nixon's appeal among non-Republicans would be weaker than Rocky's, which might cost the party heavily in contests at other levels. What makes this a matter of concern to the G.O.P. is the latest Gallup estimate that regular Republicans now constitute a scant 27% of the U.S. electorate, while Democrats claim 46% and independents 27%. Nevertheless, Nixon can point to considerable coattail strength of his own. Even though he narrowly lost the race for the presidency...
...long as somebody's wife is better looking than ours; as long as a neighbor has a better car than ours; as long as our shouting for a principle or idea is overtaken by someone who shouts louder; as long as we may feel that there are weaker beasts willing to be told, to be led, to be directed. We have been like that from prehistoric man to the scholars of today. Because this country has refused to accept that fact for so long, its outbursts shock you and surprise you. You have always had an image of innocence...
...substituted a more specialized Expository Writing course for the old composition requirement and permitted creation of more advanced courses to satisfy basic Gen Ed requirements. This liberalization of the Gen Ed rules, Ford points out, permits students with better training to take advanced Gen Ed courses, while students with weaker high school training still have more basic lower-level courses...
...noble art of losing face may one day save the human race and turn into eternal merit what weaker minds would call disgrace...
...candidate has at one time or another emerged as the people's presidential choice. The reason is clear: during pre-election months, the volatile voters' sentiments seesaw along with news events and the candidates' pronouncements-which is what campaigns are all about. Party loyalties are also weaker in May than in November. One consequence is that extremist, third-party candidates often run stronger in polls and primaries than in national elections-as may well be the case in 1968 with George Wallace, who has been garnering 11% to 19% of the poll vote...