Word: oft
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...disadvantage before the Big Eye. Debate No. 4 in itself gave little new substance to their views, though, as before, the tension of the confrontation made the occasion dramatic. The inflexible format and generally inept questioning by TV newscasters produced a disappointing, almost high schoolish, rerun of oft-stated positions and oft-used phrases on both sides...
Boos at the Plaza. Then everybody got set for Nikita Khrushchev's rebuttal next day. By now it was clear that no mere recital of the oft-told Soviet line would be enough to recapture all the lost ground. Khrushchev's own description of Ike's speech as "conciliatory" suggested that Khrushchev was eager to begin negotiating again. That night, instead of closeting himself with his advisers, Khrushchev resumed his favorite role of informal comic and propagandist. Flanked by his ever-present army of security guards, he rolled up to the staid Plaza Hotel to attend...
Kennedy himself flew back to Manhattan to accept the Liberal Party nomination, to join forces with Adlai Stevenson, and to promise leadership toward "the new and better world beyond the New Frontier." On across the city and into New Jersey he carried his own basic, oft-repeated theme: the decline of the U.S. at home and abroad. In heavily Democratic centers he added a clarion call for party loyalty...
...What am I? Virgin, sir! Poet, sir! I am a virgin and a poet; less than mortal and more; not a man, but Mankind! I shall regard my innocence as badge of my strength and proof of my calling: let her who's worthy oft take it from...
...presidential nomination, wanted Nixon to lose in 1960. and was deliberately trying to undercut him. But Nixon took a soft-answer tone, defended Rockefeller's right to voice his disagreements with the Ad ministration, issued a soothing call for party unity. He also publicly promised that Rockefeller's "oft-expressed desire that he not be drafted as a candidate for Vice President will be respected ? certainly...