Word: leftishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same time, however, the NDC has been building a broad voalition of white middle class suburbanites, academicians, and students from the old McCarthy movement with progressive Negroes (or less militant blacks, if you will), the Chicano (Mexican-American) community in the Southwest, leftish labour members, and Indians from the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy's supporters. It is a highly decentralized operation--mostly on a state level, but often on a community level--which in some ways resembles the conservative Republican movement of the carly 1960s...
...brother's death and Bob Kennedy's emergence as the heir to the innovative, electric style of the late Kennedy Administration seemed to push his evolution apace. Opponents said that Kennedy had determined to carve out a leftish, intra-party opposition to President Johnson as the surest means to capitalize on his brother's reputation and retrieve the White House for the Kennedy dynasty...
...example, Lipset claims that the leftish, militant Students for a Democratic Society have only 7,000 members among the na tion's 6.5 million university students. By contrast, the Young Democrats and Young Republicans have a combined enrollment of nearly 250,000. Lipset also believes that on both the left and right, far more students were activists in the 1930s than are so today...
...included more large metropolitan dailies. Replacing Goldwater in the Times is none other than Everett M. Dirksen, who will write one column a week. For his debut, Dirksen muted his usual flamboyance and delivered a somber little lecture on international politics. Even though India is "liberal and leftish," he wrote, even though she has seized tiny Goa, harassed Pakistan and hobbled free enterprise, she has one thing going for her: size. Therefore, suggested Dirksen, U.S. economic aid should be continued...
...Daughter of a Pittsburgh contractor, she served on Eisenhower's staff in World War II as a WAC officer-cryptographer, later studied law at Ohio Northern University and South Texas College; she has spent 17 years as a supervisor of social workers. A former member of the leftish Socialist Labor Party, she claims to have forsaken Christianity at 13, after reading the Bible; since then, reason has been her only faith, and she boasts: "Nobody has ever beaten me in an argument...