Word: clay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your excellent Essay [Sept. 20] concerning the failings of our Electoral College was most pointed, as far as it went. You cited three presidential elections, those of Jefferson-Burr, Clay-Adams-Jackson-Crawford and Hayes-Tilden, to illustrate your indictment of the college's utility. It is of interest that two of these elections and perhaps the course of American history were decided in each instance by the margin of a single vote. Adams won by the vote of General Stephen Van Rensselaer and Hayes by the 8-to-7 vote of an electoral commission that awarded...
More trouble developed in 1824. With the Federalist Party all but dead, the presidential vote split among four Democrats. Kentucky's Henry Clay and Georgia's William H. Crawford each won 13% of the popular vote, and their electoral votes were enough to deny a majority to Andrew Jackson, the popular winner with 152,933 votes (42.2%). In the House, Clay threw his support to the runner-up, John Quincy Adams, who had collected 31.9% of the popular vote. Clay's action made Adams President, and by no small coincidence, Clay became Secretary of State. Though Jackson...
...Hard Court championship, but was beaten in the third round at Wimbledon. In 1965 he led the U.S. Davis Cup team to a 3-2 victory over Mexico, only to be benched during the interzone finals against Spain on the grounds that his play on clay was lackluster...
...North Side army-navy surplus stores), bail money and anti-Mace unguents. A handful of hard-liners in the "violence bag" also carried golf balls studded with spikes, javelins made of snow-fence slats, aerosol cans full of caustic oven-cleaning fluids, ice picks, bricks, bottles, and clay tiles sharpened to points that would have satisfied a Cro-Magnon bear hunter...
...wheedles. He stares ferretlike down his long nose, droning in a voice that sounds like a cross between a buzz saw and Bronx sneer. "Did you take a dive in the Clay fight?" he demands of Son ny Listen. Or as Muhammad Ali launches into his pitch for Muslimism, Cosell cuts in sharply: "Awright, we've been through that...