Word: derailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Those of you who are keeping a record of my accuracy, and I'm sure there are many of you, have noticed that 12 of my last 13 prophecies have come to pass. I've got momentum now, and it's going to take a mighty force to derail me. I'm fortunate again today to have a fairly predictable bunch of games, and probably only the Princeton Yale affair could turn out to be a blemish. But Coach Yovicsin has acknowledged how difficult it often is to make such prognostications, "Hell, I don't know anything about comparing football...
Princeton, which ranks right behind Yale in both offense and defense, has lost four games, but all by less than seven points. This will be the Tigers' third attempt in four weeks to derail an undefeated Ivy League team...
...Rockefeller is the G.O.P.'s most electable candidate, he is also its least nominatable one. His short-lived attempt to derail Nixon in 1960 and his failure to back Barry Goldwater in 1964 still rankle among party workers. Said one Midwestern G.O.P. state chairman: "If Rocky reaches for the nomination, a thousand people will try to cut off his hand." Consequently, Rockefeller's advisers and sympathizers are seriously split on whether he should take the moderates' baton from Romney soon after New Hampshire and plunge into the primaries or wait silently for the convention...
...Avoid the endless probate delays that may disrupt his business, derail his investments, and otherwise cut his family's income after his death. With a trust, his affairs flow smoothly...
...curve in the tunnel and struck the mine wall, showering the fatal sparks that ignited coal dust in a vast explosion. At Tsurumi, outside Yokohama, another cotter pin evidently sheared off the wheel housing of a southbound freight car. The loose lost wheel caused the last three cars to derail and sprawl across the adjacent track. Seconds later, alerted by a warning flare, a passenger train southbound from Tokyo halted on a clear track beside the freight. At that moment, a northbound commuter train roared up the middle track. The locomotive crashed into the derailed freight cars, did a right...