Word: contests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contest...
However the G.O.P. contest comes out, it promises to be as action filled as the fight between Carter and Kennedy. After that will come what House Speaker Tip O'Neill grimly calls "an s.o.b. of an election...
...receive right then assurances from Phnom-Penh and Hanoi that the expanded aid would actually get through to hungry Cambodians. Well, maybe. But Carter's whole week demonstrated that he is acutely aware of the powers of an incumbent President and determined to use them in his contest with Kennedy for the Democratic nomination. Some other samples of his new assertiveness...
...Yale-Cornell contest pitted the nation's top-ranked defensive team, Yale, against the Ivy League's best offensive eleven. Through three and one-half quarters, it seemed like offensive power would prevail, as the Big Red, after trailing 17-6 at the half, stormed back to lead 20-17 with six minutes to play...
...Crimson, intimidated although by no means outplayed, stayed in the game until the final minutes when a Margaret Dicicio goal sealed the contest with just under four minutes remaining...