Word: backlashing
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...certain what effect these tactics will have on the voters Tuesday. McCarthy and his supporters are hoping a backlash of resentment against the charges will work in their favor, just as the Johnson pledge card effort had done at the beginning of the campaign...
...week's end, such a backlash had begun, at least among party officials. Candidates for five delegate slots, who support President Johnson, issued a statement Friday repudiating the advertisements. Senator Tom McIntyre (D.N.H.), who has also been a chief Johnson backer, disassociated himself from the King statements...
...pointing up what they consider to be the joint economic interest of working class whites and Negroes, Frontlash hopes to limit the extent of white backlash and to lessen its potential impact on the 1968 elections...
...about avoiding service in this war. All the leadership -- wherever it is -- in the movement here has succeeded in doing is confusing people. At a time when solidarity as well as coherence is all-important, SDS, for all its highly-touted organizational abilities, still suffers from a kind of backlash prejudice, and its substantive activities this year have been far from spectacular...
...shilling (14?) fee; they adopt a menacing pose for 2 shillings. Nyerere, who himself usually wears a Chinese-style boiler suit, does not seem to care about the tourist revenues that he may lose. His policy reflects not only the prudish nationalism of his socialist state but a black backlash against foreigners who, Mkwang'ata claims, romanticize the Masai as "walking, talking specimens of the noble savage." However, as an English-language newspaper, the Tanzania Standard, points out, Nyerere's policy ignores one fact: "To dress lightly makes sense in the heat of the tropics...