Word: wording
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Richard Nixon lifted the Governor of Maryland from a position of relative obscurity to the second spot on the Republican Party's tick et last month, Spiro Theodore Agnew reacted with becoming modesty. "Spiro Agnew," he told reporters in Miami Beach, word." By "is last not week, exactly a Nixon's running household mate was well on his way to making quite a name for himself. There was considerable debate, however, over what sort of name it was and how it would affect the G.O.P. ticket's chances in the 1968 presidential race...
...thermonuclear weaponry, of a man who might some day be thrust into the presidency of the U.S. Agnew has certainly made some errors of judgment in the campaign so far, but the campaign is relatively young. As things stand now, the name Agnew could indeed become a household word in the U.S. His conduct in the next several weeks will determine just what sort of word...
...critical issues of civil rights, inflation or war, although ultimately its effect on them is immeasurable. Nor does the passage involve the two "pops" for which reformers have been crusading in recent months: popular nationwide primaries and popular tax-supported campaign financing. It concerns instead the 59-word paragraph in Article 2 of the Constitution that establishes the Electoral College as the mechanism for choosing a President. In the 180 years since ratification, more than 500 proposals have been advanced in Congress for abolishing or altering the College. Forty reform amendments are currently before the House Judiciary Committee, and debate...
...mention that Czechoslovaks were killed and wounded by the invading armies. It is also forbidden to talk about the damage that trigger-happy Soviet soldiers and their tanks inflicted on Czechoslovak buildings and autos. Above all, there must be no criticism of Warsaw Pact countries or use of the word "occupation." Censors canceled a nationwide TV and radio address by Dubcek one hour before broadcast time because he planned to say that the resumption of censorship was to be only a temporary measure. A few days later, he finally got to make his speech, but the section on censorship...
Britain's ruling Labor Party encourages corporate mergers on the theory that the country needs bigger and more efficient companies to compete in world markets. Taking the government at its word, Britain's General Electric Co. Ltd. (no kin to American G.E.), and English Electric Co., which stand one-two in the country's electrical field, obligingly prepared last week to join forces in a corporate merger that would be the biggest in British history...