Word: bays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...absolute surprise," said Rockefeller about the Massachusetts victory. "The first break. A big help." It was nearly all of that. The only name on the Bay State Republican ballot was Governor John Volpe, running as a favorite son. Neither Rockefeller nor Nixon had organized a write-in campaign. A minuscule, orphaned draft-Rockefeller group had remained barely alive, able to spend a grand total of $1,500 during the six weeks before primary...
...first ballot-after that delegates are free to switch. While a minor victory in terms of delegate strength, it had a psychological impact. One of the strongest anti-Nixon arguments within the party is that Rockefeller, while not an orthodox Republican, is a vote-getting Republican, and the Bay State vote gave that thesis a little lift...
...ninth labor of Hercules, bringing a championship to Boston, a city whose previous baseball idol, Ted Williams, resembled that other great Greek, Achilles, who fought a great fight, but spent a lot of the time sulking in his tent." On another show, Broun likened the coach of the Green Bay Packers to "Canute-king, coach and general manager of the Britons, who commanded the waves to stop, but they broke through the lines. Vinnie Lombardi hasn't tried stopping the tide, but it's safe to say that if he told his Packers to do it, they...
...since Tim Tam carried her devil's red and blue silks to victory in the 1958 Derby has Calumet's owner, Mrs. Gene Markey, even entered a horse in the Run for the Roses. Forward Pass is a throwback to the good old days. A rangy bay with tremendous early speed, he won last March's $134,000 Florida Derby, followed that up with a smashing five-length victory in last week's $32,300 Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland in Ken tucky. With Jockey Milo Valenzuela holding on for dear life, Forward Pass led every...
...moralists easily outnumber the Humphrey wing of the party. This faction seems to be composed, in large part, of older people who have grown comfortable and powerful with the FDR-HST-JFK-LBJ brand of liberalism: give a little to everybody at home and keep the Communists at bay abroad...