Word: politicking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because of the impossibility of representation, many students thus feel nothing but disdain for those who bid for their vote and pass themselves off as their representatives. In addition the belief of the academically oriented that those who politick are in a lower class causes disdain for another reason, and so the student may mark his ballot with the patronizing view that he is pampering to the foolish whims of these politicos who perhaps do what they do because they lack the intellectual strength to study and become immersed in academics, and so must compensate for their academic weaknesses...
Paul Butler, Democratic National Chairman, will deliver the keynote address at 11:30 a.m. Saturday morning. Earlier in the morning, from 9 a.m. on, the delegates will caucus in their state delegations to decide on permanent state chairmen, discuss platform planks, and politick for votes...
About 900 delegates are expected to riot, parade, politick, and eventually nominate candidates for President and Vice-President and write a party platform at the 1956 Intercollegiate Democratic Convention on May 11-12, in Sanders Theatre...
...University. Every party, every dance, must have been dutifully attended by a Yearbook photographer. And each of the eight House committees managed to summon a quorum and look properly awake for its constituents. But for the nonpool player who learned years ago that college students drink, attend parties, and politick, 319 has very little to offer...
...even if Israeli soldiers marched to Damascus or Cairo, they could not expect to wipe out the opposition of the Arab world. War would only multiply further the legacy of hatred among the Arabs. The present divisions among the Arabs may seem to offer the Israelis a chance to politick for possible ententes with disaffected Arab states. It is doubtful, however, that any Arab state would risk popular outrage by seeking closer relations with the Israelis. And a "Balkanization" of the Arab states, if it did occur, would hardly promote stability in the area. In the absence of real peace...