Word: cinches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Time to Count Again. To believers in the backlash theory, Lesinski's victory seemed a cinch. But Dingell won by a vote of 30,791 to 25,620. In a district that was clearly liberal on almost every issue other than civil rights, his liberal record was the big difference. Moreover, as Dingell himself said, with more accuracy than modesty: "I can make an understandable and intelligent speech, where my opponent, frankly, cannot...
...main order of business, the 1964 Republican National Convention was all but over before it began. Barry Goldwater's presidential nomination was as close to a cinch as anything in politics...
...good reason. Despite his pallor at the polls, Goldwater has such apparent delegate strength that he seemed a near cinch for the nomination. Then again, Lyndon Johnson looks like even more of a shoo-in for November, so many of the kingmakers decided they might as well sit this one out. "On a ten-to-one shot, what's the use of jumping off the building?" asked one important G.O.P. moneyman...
...miler from Trinidad who sets more world records than anyone can keep count of (he set one this winter running in sneakers on a gym floor at Cornell). Mottley is guaranteed to make a shambles of the quarter mile this afternoon, and the Yale team he anchors is a cinch in the mile relay...
...hear some of them tell it, Johnson is a blindfold cinch. "He doesn't give me any trouble at all," says the Los Angeles Times's gifted Paul Conrad (TIME, Jan. 31), who accentuates what he calls the President's "dish face." The Chicago Sun-Times's Bill Mauldin, who found Kennedy "inscrutable" and therefore hard to capture, ropes Johnson with ease: "He's scrutable. What he's thinking shows through." The Washington Star's James Berryman, who has harpooned Presidents for 31 years, considers Johnson "the answer to a cartoonist...