Word: almosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only one race. "You're welcome to join us, as long as you're white," John R. Harrell, founder of the league, said over the phone a few days earlier. "We work with all races, but we don't believe in mixing them. We feel that almost 50% of the world's problems are caused by the mixing of races, which we believe to be totally against the natural makeup...
...freely: $500,000 for his McLean house in 1968, $100,000 for the apartment in Boston in which Joan lives and $75,000 in 1961 for the white frame house on Squaw Island, about a mile from the Kennedy family compound at Hyannis Port. He is at Squaw Island almost every weekend during the warm-weather months, and these weekends focus on family and sports. Kennedy loves the outdoors, even though he has dry skin and too much exposure causes it to break out in red blotches. He and Patrick swim before breakfast, then they may go surf casting...
Kennedy also remains somewhat aloof from his Senate staffers. He almost never goes out with them on social occasions and rarely gets involved in personnel problems. He has a brisk approach to subordinates that he may have inherited from his father. He often tells his staff how the patriarch would have handled a problem. Like Joseph Kennedy, the Senator rarely hands out compliments or credit but is quick to assess blame when something goes wrong. Once he angrily dressed down an aide for not informing his mother that he was going to appear on a TV interview show. After...
...campaign fortunes will almost surely seesaw. Both Carter and Kennedy may at times look unbeatable, then be beaten. After New England come primaries in which Carter now appears to be invincible: Florida, Alabama and Georgia. In these states, as in most of the old Confederacy, Kennedy is about as popular as cold grits. Says Richard Dick, a high Virginia Democrat: "Kennedy's coattails in this state would work like a noose, strangling our candidates." The first real showdown may come when both candidates face off outside their home regions, in Illinois on March 18. The challenger got a significant lift...
After two miles, an unusually large pack consisting of almost 20 runners led the field. No one seemed willing to break open the pack and set himself up. "It's like being thrown to the wolves if you try to take the lead in a situation like that," McNulty said following the meet...