Word: bandwagons
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...leadership side of a disc jockey's role, to be successful, requires intuition sharpened by practice. Bradley recalls with a slightly pained laugh that the music committee "threw 'She Loves You' in the waste basket" in June, 1963 -- missing the chance to get on the Beatles' bandwagon five months before they revolutionized rock 'n' roll in America. On the credit side, he remembers that the station kept playing "You've Lost that Loving Feeling" for over a month before it started to sell, an unprecedented show of confidence for a song in the Boston area, "one of the fastest paced...
Reviewing his guest list before the dinner, Kenny exclaimed: "I don't think there will be a soul there who wouldn't campaign for me." Actually, most of those who attended were there to honor a friend rather than board a bandwagon. Teddy Kennedy, who does not like backing losers, may well stay on the sidelines until the June convention or even the September primary. Many politicians doubt in any case that O'Donnell can wrest the nomination from Edward McCormack, nephew of House Speaker John McCormack, who has held statewide office (Attorney General), has been campaigning...
...plot sounds neat in a couple of sentences. We're in the twenty-first century (as Victim thuds dully onto the science-fiction bandwagon), and there's an international murder tournament called "The Hunt," government-run to sap the aggressions of potential war-mongeers. Anyone who survives ten hunts becomes a "decathlon" and retires with a lush government pension...
Stevenson bandwagon in 1952. During that campaign, says a friend, "he got a glint in his eye that never left." But two straight crushing defeats nearly dispirited him. "Stevenson came along too soon," he lamented in 1957. "Americans, after a generation's buffeting by depression and war, had to have a breathing spell. Even by 1956 they had not had their fill of inertia...
...Roman Catholic editor of the National Review, who had never before run for office. Buckley's announced objectives were to give some visibility to the Conservative Party and to establish it as a more effective force than the Liberal Party, which had helped push Lindsay's bandwagon. Buckley, the wittiest of the candidates, began to enjoy himself, and before the campaign was over it was obvious that his objective was to defeat Lindsay. In the end, he had nothing but his quips to console him, for he mightily aided Lindsay's cause by drawing thousands of Catholics...