Word: majority
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Twentieth Century Week will be a major contribution to international understanding and an intensely interesting experience," Leed declared. "We intend to offer an opportunity for American students to assess the image the United States projects abroad...
When a forester from West Rupert, Vt. wrote a letter to the major state newspapers announcing his candidacy for the Democratic Senatorial nomination early in 1958, party leaders were, to say the least, taken aback. When election returns subsequently showed that on $2,000 and the disarmament issue William Meyer had broken the 104-year Republican hold on Vermont's Congressional seat, there was a good deal of incredulous blinking. And when Meyer loomed up in the House calling for a profound re-examination of the government's Cold War efforts, the Congress and the whole country began stirring...
...there trying to accomplish something, than ten worrying about re-election. We may lose this election, but then again, we may surprise them." Meyer's adversaries have called him irreligious (he is a former deacon of a Dutch Reform Church, and has made a concerted study of all the major religions) and a dupe of the Reds (he warned against the consequences of close alliance with the Soviet Union during the Second World War), but they have been forced to shy away from attacking his record...
...campaign has again been a give-and-take with the voters, wherein he tries to do as much listening as talking. Apparently his major objective is to reach a maximum number of people personally, to counteract the effects of a generally hostile press. The factors working for him are the tremendous degree to which Vermonters believe in his honesty, and the growing acceptance of his views...
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