Word: contests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reasons for Nixon's increased pace were clear. He had to maintain interest in the contest so unkindly rendered meaningless by George Romney's withdrawal. He needed more than ever to hold the spotlight lest it wander to the late-blooming Rockefeller write-in campaign. And looking beyond New Hampshire, he had to sustain the momentum that so far has put him ahead in the competition for the Republican nomination...
...four set out for Braverman's fu neral, bickering all the way to the Brooklyn synagogue. Sometimes the quarrels center around Booke's Volkswagen, an offense to Wiseman's anti-German sensibilities. Sometimes the men vie with each other in a heated trivia contest (who were the members of the Rinkydinks?). When the quartet collides with a Negro cab driver (Godfrey Cambridge), their debate rises to tidal proportions, only to unroil when the cabbie turns out to be a convert to Judaism. The mourners arrive late for the services and giggle derisively as a rabbi (Alan King...
...prep school team leaves March 18 for a European tour and the proceeds from tonight's contest will go towards financing this trip...
...said that Kennedy's candidacy will split the anti-Vietnam vote and ensure President Johnson's re-nomination in August, but did not openly discourage the former Attorney General from entering the contest...
...long-awaited Harvard-Yale extravaganza finally took place in 1875. The game was played in New Haven and through some ingenious "compromise"--characteristic of this University's administrators--Harvard's rugby rules reigned. Harvard dominated the contest, taking full advantage of Yale's inexperience with an unfamiliar manly sport. The Harvard Advocate, a student periodical, summarized Yale's performance in the following words: "They showed very little discipline on the field, the different players not seeming to know their positions, and above all, failing in almost every instance to back each other up properly...