Word: daniels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Landslide Lyndon." In 1941, Johnson tried for the Senate, but W. Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel edged him out by 1,311 votes. Many of Johnson's friends wanted him to contest the election on the ground that the count was rigged. "That's the ball game," said he. "I thought it was a curve ball, but the umpire called it a strike. Let's play again some...
...Some day" came in 1948, when O'Daniel stepped out and Johnson ran against former Governor Coke Stevenson. It was a wild, extra-inning game. To make up time lost by illness, Johnson campaigned by helicopter, with fleets of tank trucks and crews of advance men spread out in his path. He dropped in on ten to 15 towns a day. After running second in the first Democratic primary, he won the runoff (tantamount to election) by a hair-thin 87 votes...
...mean feat to maintain serenity among men of such dissimilar temperaments as India's Nehru and South Africa's Daniel Malan, but Sir Winston Churchill did it-largely by the device of doing most of the talking himself...
Churchill's conclusion was that the Commonwealth as a whole should press the U.S. to agree to Big Four talks-soon. He got informal agreement, though Daniel Malan for one could see no practical advantage to be gained. Nehru was emphatic that nothing-not even U.S. abstention-should prevent a get-together with the Russians...
...Bliss Carnichan read the class ode, while Class Chorister Daniel S. Neale led the seniors in singing...