Word: dog
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...report earned him the wrath of civil rights leaders who accused him of racism. Those accusations would dog him through his first senate race in 1976, when he defeated veteran Republican Senator James L. Buckley. He was re-elected three times...
...didn’t care about his exams because he had already given up his scholarly aspirations. One night late in his junior year, a friend who had beaten him for the presidency of the Harvard Lampoon took him to the dog track—“and that,” he says, “was the end of my academic career...
...didn’t know what Wonderland was. I didn’t know what a dog track was,” Crist recalls. “I went out there that night, and that was the end of my academic career...
After they went once, they kept going back—almost every day. They visited all four dog tracks located within an hour of Cambridge and took chartered busses to the greyhound park in Seabrook...
...little work got done on the book that, when it still wasn’t done by Labor Day, their friends had to strand them at a remote hotel away from the dog tracks, where the only entertainment was the Jerry Lewis telethon...