Word: know
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...with Meyer for two hours the other night," said one lady, "and tried to be objective--I know I'm blased. But he didn't crack a smile, not one smile. I can't vote for a man who's that serious." Another lady, the former head of Rutland's League of Women Voters, chimed in: "He's a complainer and a pouter. What's more, he doesn't represent Vermont's attitude when he votes in the House. He sticks to his own idealistic position, saying exactly what that position forces him to believe. I think...
...constituency. Stafford seems to feel that no matter how badly informed the people of Vermont are, their representatives should reflect every aspect of the majority opinion Meyer seems to believe that no group of people can be well-informed as its representatives, and that the people don't always know what their best interests are. He votes as he thinks best, not necessarily as the people might think best and through newsletters from Washington, through Carefully clear speeches, he informs the people of the logic behind him position...
Another Vermonter, one who opposes Meyer, believes that "leaders of the world have never realized that cooperation is a better method than competition." When it was pointed out to him that this was precisely Meyer's attitude he replied, "I know, but in today's world you have to vote for the man who will do the most expedient thing...
...about different problems." "I've lived through two wars," said another, "and I pray every night that we won't have a third. I think we're wrong about this Cuba business, and we're making too many bombs." Why won't she vote for Meyer? "I don't know, I just disagree with...
...quarters of the committed voters), and most of them had little to say about the issues or personalities involved in the comparing. Significantly, none of the undecided voters, or those who refused to announce their intentions, knew the names of either candidate for Congressman-at-large, and only three know the name of either candidate for Congress...