Word: winter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the campaign, Winter met secretly with Negro leaders, explained to them that he would have to sound like a segregationist in public in order to pick up the white conservative vote that he needed, along with Negro support, to win. Realizing that this was the only course that would win Winter white votes, Evers and his lieutenants went along with the ruse. Evers even advised a Winter aide on election...
Plainly, many Negroes could not take Winter's racist rhetoric-or were simply confused by the stratagem worked out by Evers and the other Negro leaders. Many even voted for Williams, or did not vote at all. Only about 100,000 of the state's 194,000 registered Negroes cast their ballots-a surprising drop from the August primary, when about 70% voted...
...doctor Britain's faltering economy with doses of austerity, Prime Minister Harold Wilson has lately managed to look more like a quack dispensing dubious pills. Unemployment climbed to a 27-year peak of 559,000 last month, and that total is generally expected to reach 750,000 by winter. Industrial production has stagnated for nearly a year. Foreign-exchange earnings, the crucial source of support for the British pound, have risen, but at a disappointing rate. Under increasing critical attack both within and without his own Labor Party, Wilson last week called up a surprise reinforcement: himself...
Bigger than Beaches. Sir Stafford himself pulled up stakes in Nassau last spring and moved to self-imposed exile in Spain, although he says he still plans to spend a few winter months each year at Waterloo, his home on East...
...bronze and marble for centuries have gained in luster and patina from exposure to the weather, but a whole new range of materials, notably stain less steel and plastics, practically demand the reflective brilliance of sun shine. "Aluminum shines wonderfully against the greens of summer and the greys of winter," observes New York Collector Robert Scull...