Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...includes a band of moderates and liberals increasingly disposed to cross party lines to vote with their ideological counterparts on such issues as ABM and civil rights. Last week, as the 43 Republican Senators prepared to select Everett Dirksen's successor as minority leader, the factional lines of stress became clear...
...flaw in style is compounded, in Barber's view, by a major character deficiency - Nixon's tendency to lapse into unguarded behavior after periods of great stress. Nixon himself as much as acknowledged the phenomenon in his Six Crises, and later went on to explode bitterly at the press following his 1962 California gubernatorial defeat. Barber even provides a scenario for a future situation brought on by Nixon's "crisis syndrome": the Administration is defeated on a key issue, Nixon losing face or power in the bargain; at a press conference, he is badgered about...
...Marines to shrink proportionally more than the Air Force and the Navy. While McNamara emphasized a balance of forces and strengthened conventional elements as well as nuclear components of the arsenal, Laird is likely to encourage at least a partial return to the approach of the Eisenhower years. The stress then was on developing strategic nuclear weapons?long-range bombers, missiles...
Since his car drove off the Dike Bridge on Chappaquiddick, carrying Mary Jo Kopechne to her death, the scars of stress and self-doubt have etched themselves into Teddy Kennedy's face and affected his voice and actions. None of his friends expected him to regain his equilibrium soon. Now, among both friends and political intimates, who initially felt that his withdrawal from presidential contention and his expressed intention to remain in the Senate would suspend the harassments plaguing him, there is a growing fear that he is being driven from public life...
Striped-Pants Pansies. Hargis continued to stress the religious theme throughout the Eleventh Annual National Convention of the Christian Crusade in Tulsa earlier this month. He told the delegates that "conservative politics without a real alliance in Christ is in vain," and preached that "the hope of the Christian is in the Second Coming of Christ and nothing else, not a political victory, not even a military victory." But the choice of convention speakers left some doubt about the sincerity of such protestations...