Word: daunt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tributes will be small consolation if in the end the two McGoverns' campaign falls short. The seemingly gloomy prospects do not daunt Eleanor. "My husband does not give up easily. And neither do I," she says with a glint in her eyes. Nor is Pat Nixon ebullient over certain success. "Listen," she says, "you can never worry too much about being an overdog. Politics is a funny business: you're up one day, down the next." Up or down, the other campaigners of 1972 have measurably warmed and enhanced the unprepossessing political landscape...
...iconoclast sought to discredit "Miracle" San with a Gennaro mixture by of gold, effecting mer the cury and sulphide of mercury. In 1890 an Italian professor got results from a concoction of chocolate, water, sugar, casein, milk serum and salt. Even the Vatican's doubts did not daunt the Neapolitans. After San Gennaro lost his place on the church calendar, a fervent follower scrawled on the saint's altar in the cathedral: "San Gennaro, don't give a damn...
...Element. The apparent finality did not daunt Shearin. He offered to take custody of Eisentrager and lined up a job for him as a probation counselor in Gaithersburg, Md. Last month he returned to Nevada to plead Eisentrager's case before the parole board. Though it had unanimously turned down the convict's parole bid once before, the board this time voted 4 to 2 for his release. One of the dissenters, Justice John Mowbray, who had sentenced Eisentrager originally, asked, "Why is this man being treated any differently than any lifer? Others in his same position think...