Word: maneuverability
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The complete amnesty was a practical step toward holding general elections. As a two-way political maneuver it is supposed to 1) deprive the government's opponents of a major ground for crying fraud, and 2) encourage them to make a fair try at gaining power by the ballot...
It is precisely his restraint and respectability that make Eastland a far more dismaying phenomenon than Vardaman and his ilk ever were. When an old-style Southern politician made an unvarnished appeal to racial hatred, it was possible to dismiss it as a coldly cynical maneuver to get the poor...
Room for Maneuver. This fact gives a hollow ring to arguments of "moderate" Southerners when they protest against federal intervention and demand to be allowed "to work this thing out our own way." Already the Supreme Court's school desegregation decision has accomplished more toward giving first-class citizenship...
Even the sound of the skates gliding along told the judges the difference between a missed "change" or a smartly executed maneuver. So the five judges listened to the whisper of steel on ice, watched Tenley's flashing feet, her graceful arms and shoulders as she kept her delicate...
At first the wheat support vote was tallied as 46 for flexible supports and 45 against. Then the Senate went through the parliamentary maneuver of confirming the vote (a motion to reconsider and table), which Administration forces won handily. At that point, however, Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson rose to say...