Word: beating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...backed by 18%, compared with 52% for Ted Kennedy and 25% for Carter. California Pollster Mervin Field thinks Brown has a fifty-fifty chance against Carter if Kennedy stays out of the contest. Brown, on the other hand, may have lost some of the luster that enabled him to beat Carter in all three of the primaries in 1976 where he appeared on the ballot. His unconventionality has by now become rather conventional; he is expected to do the unexpected. Behavior that seemed refreshingly uninhibited at first now may strike people as overly opportunistic. Asserts Tom D'Alesandro...
...curfew than Managua burst into noisy life. Roadblocks at major intersections came down, and the streets filled with honking traffic. Restaurants and theaters showing old American films like Mandingo began to attract crowds. Radio Sandino, voice of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (F.S.L.N.), adjusted to the brand new beat: to its broadcasts of revolutionary anthems it added disco hits by the Bee Gees...
...York area. "It usually blows someone's mind to hear me in full voice on the street," he says. Once, as he was approaching the climactic A-flat in the prologue to I Pagliacci, a bus stopped between him and his audience. Without missing a beat, he stepped into the bus, blasted out the Aflat, then hopped back onto the sidewalk as the startled driver and passengers rolled away...
...contrast, Congressional Quarterly, a crosstown rival of sorts, tends to look at Washington from the vantage point of Capitol Hill. The Journal has a relatively large staff of twelve full-time reporters and five contributing editors. With a generous two to three weeks to work on projects, they often beat their capital colleagues to important but not so obvious stories. Staff Correspondent Robert J. Samuelson's examination last year of the growing impact of the elderly on the federal budget, for instance, touched off a wave of similar articles in the general press and this year won a prestigious...
...American slob-hero of Maas' book is Richie Flynn, 33, a poor Irish boy from Manhattan who had a flurry of fame as a New York Giants' running back eleven years earlier. Though still honored on the saloon beat, where he peddles Goldblatt beer, Flynn has gnawing dreams of recaptured affluence. His road to riches is outlined for him by a city hall insider, who shows the ex-jock how he can buy a building condemned by the city and lease it back to New York as a day care center. All Richie needs is title...