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No matter how often a man goes back to the scenes of his youth and strength, they can never be recaptured again. | recaptured | {
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Since the obvious is not always true, the Republican National Committee wisely analyzed its defeat of last autumn and finds that it occurred, as suspected, in the larger cities. | is | {
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Since the obvious is not always true, the Republican National Committee wisely analyzed its defeat of last autumn and finds that it occurred, as suspected, in the larger cities. | analyzed | {
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Since the obvious is not always true, the Republican National Committee wisely analyzed its defeat of last autumn and finds that it occurred, as suspected, in the larger cities. | finds | {
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Since the obvious is not always true, the Republican National Committee wisely analyzed its defeat of last autumn and finds that it occurred, as suspected, in the larger cities. | occurred | {
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Of 40 cities with populations of 300000 and more, Mr. Kennedy carried 26 and Mr. Nixon 14. | carried | {
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There are eight states in which the largest urban vote can be the balance of power in any close election. | be | {
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In 1952 Mr. Eisenhower won all but Missouri. | won | {
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Yet, in 1960 all eight gave majorities to Mr. Kennedy. | gave | {
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Republican research broke down the vote in Philadelphia. | broke down | {
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Mr. Nixon, despite a very earnest effort to capture the minority groups, failed to do so. | capture | {
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Mr. Nixon, despite a very earnest effort to capture the minority groups, failed to do so. | failed | {
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His visit to Warsaw, Poland, after the Russian journey in the summer of 1959 was expected to win the Polish vote which, in several cities, is substantial. | expected | {
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His visit to Warsaw, Poland, after the Russian journey in the summer of 1959 was expected to win the Polish vote which, in several cities, is substantial. | win | {
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His visit to Warsaw, Poland, after the Russian journey in the summer of 1959 was expected to win the Polish vote which, in several cities, is substantial. | is | {
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Yet, the GOP breakdown discovered that in Philadelphia Mr. Nixon received but 21 per cent of the so-called `` Polish '' vote ; 30 per cent of the `` Irish '' vote, and 18 per cent of the `` Negro '' vote. | discovered | {
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Yet, the GOP breakdown discovered that in Philadelphia Mr. Nixon received but 21 per cent of the so-called `` Polish '' vote ; 30 per cent of the `` Irish '' vote, and 18 per cent of the `` Negro '' vote. | received | {
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A GOP `` task force ' committee will seek to find out how its party may win support from the ethnic and minority groups in cities. | seek | {
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A GOP `` task force ' committee will seek to find out how its party may win support from the ethnic and minority groups in cities. | find out | {
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A GOP `` task force ' committee will seek to find out how its party may win support from the ethnic and minority groups in cities. | win | {
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The task force might make a start in Washington with Republican congressional leaders. | make | {
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These gentlemen already have done the party harm by their seeming reluctance to vote aid for the depressed areas and by their criticism of Mr. Kennedy for talking about a recession and unemployment. | done | {
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These gentlemen already have done the party harm by their seeming reluctance to vote aid for the depressed areas and by their criticism of Mr. Kennedy for talking about a recession and unemployment. | vote | {
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These gentlemen already have done the party harm by their seeming reluctance to vote aid for the depressed areas and by their criticism of Mr. Kennedy for talking about a recession and unemployment. | talking about | {
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This error was compounded by declaring the recession to be `` a statistical one '', and not a reality. | compounded | {
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This error was compounded by declaring the recession to be `` a statistical one '', and not a reality. | declaring | {
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This error was compounded by declaring the recession to be `` a statistical one '', and not a reality. | be | {
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The almost six million persons without jobs and the two million working part-time do not consider themselves and their plight as statistical. | working | {
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The almost six million persons without jobs and the two million working part-time do not consider themselves and their plight as statistical. | consider | {
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They did not view the tour of the distressed cities and towns by Secretary of Labor Goldberg as politics, which the GOP declared it to be. | view | {
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They did not view the tour of the distressed cities and towns by Secretary of Labor Goldberg as politics, which the GOP declared it to be. | declared | {
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They did not view the tour of the distressed cities and towns by Secretary of Labor Goldberg as politics, which the GOP declared it to be. | be | {
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The people visited were glad to have a government with heart enough to take an interest in their misery. | visited | {
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Senator Mundt 's gross distortion of President Eisenhower 's conversation into a denunciation of President Kennedy as too left wing, a statement Mr. Eisenhower declared to be entirely false, is another case in point. | declared | {
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Senator Mundt 's gross distortion of President Eisenhower 's conversation into a denunciation of President Kennedy as too left wing, a statement Mr. Eisenhower declared to be entirely false, is another case in point. | be | {
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Senator Mundt 's gross distortion of President Eisenhower 's conversation into a denunciation of President Kennedy as too left wing, a statement Mr. Eisenhower declared to be entirely false, is another case in point. | is | {
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If the Republicans and Southern Democrats join to defeat medical care for the old under the Social Security program, they will thereby erect still another barrier to GOP hopes in the cities. | join | {
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If the Republicans and Southern Democrats join to defeat medical care for the old under the Social Security program, they will thereby erect still another barrier to GOP hopes in the cities. | defeat | {
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If the Republicans and Southern Democrats join to defeat medical care for the old under the Social Security program, they will thereby erect still another barrier to GOP hopes in the cities. | erect | {
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The present Republican leadership as practiced by Mundt, Goldwater, Bridges, Dirksen, et al, is repeating the errors of the party leadership of the 1930 s. | practiced | {
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The present Republican leadership as practiced by Mundt, Goldwater, Bridges, Dirksen, et al, is repeating the errors of the party leadership of the 1930 s. | repeating | {
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In that decade the partisan zeal to defend Mr. Hoover, and the party 's failure to anticipate or cope with the depression, caused a great majority of Americans to see the Republican party as cold and lacking in any sympathy for the problems of human beings caught up in the distress and suffering brought on by the econo... | defend | {
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The Republican party was not lacking in humanity, but it permitted its extremely partisan leadership to make it appear devoid of any consideration for people in trouble. | make | {
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The Republican party was not lacking in humanity, but it permitted its extremely partisan leadership to make it appear devoid of any consideration for people in trouble. | appear | {
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Farmers called their mule-drawn pickup trucks `` Hoover carts ''. | called | {
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Smokers reduced to `` the makings '', spoke of the sack tobacco as `` Hoover dust ''. | reduced | {
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Smokers reduced to `` the makings '', spoke of the sack tobacco as `` Hoover dust ''. | spoke | {
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One may be sure the present Republican congressional leadership has n't meant to repeat this error. | be | {
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One may be sure the present Republican congressional leadership has n't meant to repeat this error. | meant | {
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One may be sure the present Republican congressional leadership has n't meant to repeat this error. | repeat | {
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But it is in the process of so doing because it apparently gives priority to trying to downgrade John F. Kennedy. | is | {
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But it is in the process of so doing because it apparently gives priority to trying to downgrade John F. Kennedy. | gives | {
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But it is in the process of so doing because it apparently gives priority to trying to downgrade John F. Kennedy. | trying | {
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But it is in the process of so doing because it apparently gives priority to trying to downgrade John F. Kennedy. | downgrade | {
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That this is not good politics is underscored by the latest poll figures which show that 72 per cent of the people like the way in which the new President is conducting the nation 's business. | is | {
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That this is not good politics is underscored by the latest poll figures which show that 72 per cent of the people like the way in which the new President is conducting the nation 's business. | underscored | {
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That this is not good politics is underscored by the latest poll figures which show that 72 per cent of the people like the way in which the new President is conducting the nation 's business. | show | {
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That this is not good politics is underscored by the latest poll figures which show that 72 per cent of the people like the way in which the new President is conducting the nation 's business. | like | {
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That this is not good politics is underscored by the latest poll figures which show that 72 per cent of the people like the way in which the new President is conducting the nation 's business. | conducting | {
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The most articulate Republicans are those who, in their desire to get back at Mr. Kennedy, already have created the image of a Republican leadership which is reluctant to assist the distressed and the unemployed, and which is even more unwilling to help old people who need medical care. | are | {
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The most articulate Republicans are those who, in their desire to get back at Mr. Kennedy, already have created the image of a Republican leadership which is reluctant to assist the distressed and the unemployed, and which is even more unwilling to help old people who need medical care. | get back | {
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The most articulate Republicans are those who, in their desire to get back at Mr. Kennedy, already have created the image of a Republican leadership which is reluctant to assist the distressed and the unemployed, and which is even more unwilling to help old people who need medical care. | created | {
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The most articulate Republicans are those who, in their desire to get back at Mr. Kennedy, already have created the image of a Republican leadership which is reluctant to assist the distressed and the unemployed, and which is even more unwilling to help old people who need medical care. | is | {
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The most articulate Republicans are those who, in their desire to get back at Mr. Kennedy, already have created the image of a Republican leadership which is reluctant to assist the distressed and the unemployed, and which is even more unwilling to help old people who need medical care. | assist | {
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The most articulate Republicans are those who, in their desire to get back at Mr. Kennedy, already have created the image of a Republican leadership which is reluctant to assist the distressed and the unemployed, and which is even more unwilling to help old people who need medical care. | is | {
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The most articulate Republicans are those who, in their desire to get back at Mr. Kennedy, already have created the image of a Republican leadership which is reluctant to assist the distressed and the unemployed, and which is even more unwilling to help old people who need medical care. | help | {
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The most articulate Republicans are those who, in their desire to get back at Mr. Kennedy, already have created the image of a Republican leadership which is reluctant to assist the distressed and the unemployed, and which is even more unwilling to help old people who need medical care. | need | {
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If they also defeat the school bill, the GOP task force won n't have much research to do. | defeat | {
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If they also defeat the school bill, the GOP task force won n't have much research to do. | do | {
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It will early know why the party won n't win back city votes. | know | {
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It will early know why the party won n't win back city votes. | win back | {
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The 1962 General Assembly has important business to consider. | consider | {
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The tragedy is that it will not be able to transact that business in any responsible manner. | is | {
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The tragedy is that it will not be able to transact that business in any responsible manner. | be | {
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The tragedy is that it will not be able to transact that business in any responsible manner. | transact | {
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After the Griffin-Byrd political troup has completed the circuit in November in the name of a Pre-Legislative Forum, this is going to be the most politically oriented Legislature in history. | completed | {
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After the Griffin-Byrd political troup has completed the circuit in November in the name of a Pre-Legislative Forum, this is going to be the most politically oriented Legislature in history. | be | {
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And just how far can the Legislature go toward setting up a self-insurance system for the state in the midst of a governor 's race ``? | go | {
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And just how far can the Legislature go toward setting up a self-insurance system for the state in the midst of a governor 's race ``? | setting up | {
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How unpartisan will be the recommendations of Lt. Gov. Garland Byrd 's Senate Committee on Government Operations? | be | {
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The situation already was bad because the Legislature moved the governor 's race forward a few months, causing the campaigning to get started earlier than usual. | was | {
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The situation already was bad because the Legislature moved the governor 's race forward a few months, causing the campaigning to get started earlier than usual. | moved | {
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The situation already was bad because the Legislature moved the governor 's race forward a few months, causing the campaigning to get started earlier than usual. | causing | {
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The situation already was bad because the Legislature moved the governor 's race forward a few months, causing the campaigning to get started earlier than usual. | get started | {
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But when former Gov. Marvin Griffin and Lt. Gov. Byrd accepted the invitations of the Georgia State Chamber of Commerce to join the tour next November, the situation was aggravated. | accepted | {
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But when former Gov. Marvin Griffin and Lt. Gov. Byrd accepted the invitations of the Georgia State Chamber of Commerce to join the tour next November, the situation was aggravated. | join | {
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But when former Gov. Marvin Griffin and Lt. Gov. Byrd accepted the invitations of the Georgia State Chamber of Commerce to join the tour next November, the situation was aggravated. | aggravated | {
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Neither had a choice other than to accept the invitation. | had | {
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Neither had a choice other than to accept the invitation. | accept | {
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To have refused would have been political suicide. | refused | {
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