Word: garnered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Travaglini's Campaign Manager Carmen Monks said he thought that LoPresti was no more progressive than Travaglini, and suggested that theincumbent was trying to portray himself as fartherto the left in order to garner support...
...verdict confirmed the worst suspicions of many of the 200 blacks who live in the East Texas town of Hemphill. Last month a jury in that tiny village (pop. 1,350) found three white police officers not guilty of violating the civil rights of Loyal Garner, a black truck driver who had been arrested for drunken driving and died after an alleged jailhouse beating. Lamented Will Smith, a local black minister: "It seems as if there's justice for whites only in this society...
From the beginning, many townspeople doubted that the Garner family could get a fair hearing in Hemphill. Their concern was validated when Dorie Lee Hudson Handy, a 45-year-old cleaning woman and the lone black on the jury, confessed to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that she believed the lawmen were guilty but voted for their acquittal because "I was just one black against all those ((white)) people...
WITH a lock like that, one must wonder just how hard politicians will campaign for the Black vote in the future. This year, none of the candidates made concerted efforts to garner Black votes, as they all conceded the vote to Jackson early on. And Black voters did not get much attention until Dukakis emerged as the front-runner. Even then, Dukakis by-passed Blacks and went straight to Jesse Jackson...
...Senate confirmation hearings on Thornburgh begin today and will give him a great chance to make headlines and garner praise from Republicans and Democrats alike. Already, Thornburgh has been praised by many Democratic leaders as a qualified public servant with a great reputation for personal integrity. He is expected to pass through the Senate hearings with as little trouble as a hot knife has passing through butter...