Word: rural
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assume dictatorial powers by simple proclamation; at any time he can suppress political parties that he considers opposed to the "principles of national sovereignty and of democracy." He is elected to his seven-year term not by direct vote of the nation, but by an electoral college that favors rural and conservative regional interests...
...Campaigner Rockefeller himself. Polls show that he is making a dent. The gap between candidates, once 20% in Harriman's favor, has narrowed to a hairline's difference. And among voters who made up their minds in the last fortnight, Rockefeller is the choice 8-2 in rural areas and a remarkable even-Stephen in New York City, where the heaviest Democratic vote must come from...
...previously dipped in politics no farther than the Ames school board, between campaign stops avidly reads such books as Let's Go Into Politics, by onetime Connecticut Governor Raymond E. Baldwin ("Never admit you are losing; if you think you are, don't talk about it"). In rural Iowa, Murray's burnished phrases have less appeal than Loveless' lacerated syntax, and his urbane presence (Loveless loves to refer to him as "the college professor") is a liability, whereas the stocky, rumpled figure of ex-Railroader Loveless is a definite campaign asset. Democrat Loveless...
...state loaded with them. With 55 years in professional politics, and with Pittsburgh's gleaming new skyscrapers and superhighways as personal monuments, Dave Lawrence has a statewide reputation, strong support in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and the coal-mining regions. Roman Catholic Lawrence may have trouble in the rural Bible belt; Pennsylvania has never elected a Catholic Governor. All the while, Republican McGonigle (a Lutheran) is whaling away at the sins of Democratic Governor George Leader (who is running for the Senate), and Pretzel-maker McGonigle's earnest approach is winning small but sympathetic audiences. But in machine-ridden Pennsylvania...
...rural Japan is no longer the place the elders knew. First break in the age-old pattern of peasant poverty came with the land-reform law imposed on Japan by General Douglas MacArthur...