Word: impending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, changes impend in Southern political alignments. If the Republicans nominate Eisenhower, who looks remarkably unlike Thaddeus Stevens, observers expect that he will get more Southern votes than any Republican in history. That could lead to the extension of the two-party system to the South. With it could come a re-establishment of the delicate operations of Calhounian compromise which do not require the clumsy open threats of bolts by party leaders...
...Weatherman Gromyko, whose head pops out when storms impend, just as Jacob Malik sometimes emerges to indicate clearing skies, might thunder against the Japanese treaty but he could not prevent it. The State Department had drafted a tough set of procedural rules which forbid amendments, limit each delegation to one hour's formal comment, rule out debate on points of order. But these rules must be adopted formally by the conference itself, which may give Gromyko a chance to get in his propaganda licks first. His audience will be vast: the treaty sessions in San Francisco's Opera...