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Word: bandwagoners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...delegates. Many other party veterans were on the verge of supporting him. But they held back to wait a bit after Morris Udall ran an unexpectedly close second to him in Connecticut, 33-31%, and Frank Church knocked a few spokes from the wheels of the Carter bandwagon in Nebraska...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Meanwhile, on the Carter Chase | 5/24/1976 | See Source »

...spread the word in hopes that Medical School officials would hop on his bandwagon to urge reevaluation of their standards for admission and graduation, he published his recommendations in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine...

Author: By Judith Kogan, | Title: Seven Days in May | 5/21/1976 | See Source »

...bandwagon is rolling. The steamroller is on." So lamented Morris Udall last week as he ruefully watched more and more top Democratic politicians and labor honchos line up behind Jimmy Carter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Learning to Live with Jimmy | 5/17/1976 | See Source »

...acres next to the Carter warehouse. Moreover, Clements said, Mrs. Spann stands to "get a percentage of everything we sell over the original half acre." It was a disagreeable bit of business for Jimmy, but hardly more than a tiny speck of mud on the wheels of the rolling bandwagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Learning to Live with Jimmy | 5/17/1976 | See Source »

Thus, the field was left to Jimmy Carter. Barring some unforeseen twist, he will be the Democrats' 1976 nominee. There was, at first, no stampede among party leaders to board his bandwagon. New Jersey Governor Brendan T. Byrne called on all 37 fellow Democratic Governors to unify the party by getting behind Carter, but initially drew no response. Still, no one seriously thought that Carter could be stopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Jimmy Carter's Big Breakthrough | 5/10/1976 | See Source »

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