Word: doubted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harrington '58 (D-Mass.), are different. Lawrence attorney James M. Shannon survived a brutal five-man primary fight in the Fifth District and as the Democratic nominee is an odds-on favorite to succeed Tsongas. His Republican opponent, Middlesex County Sheriff John Buckley, has been running strong, but observers doubt his votes in Boston's northwest suburbs will offset Shannon's expected power in the Democratic stronghold cities of Lowell and Lawrence...
Illinois Republican Charles Percy never had any qualms about running for a third term in the Senate. Nor did he have any doubt that he would be reelected. Through the summer and fall Percy, 59, enjoyed a huge 20-point lead in the polls over his obscure Democratic rival, Alex Seith, 44, a Chicago lawyer who had never before run for office. Percy scheduled only three weeks of heavy campaigning just before the election and expected a landslide victory, perhaps bigger than his 2-to-l triumph...
Despite such spartan measures, there is increasing doubt among both knowledgeable Iranians and Western diplomats that the Shah will be able to survive as ruler of the 57-year-old Pahlavi dynasty. In recent days. 64 members of the royal family, including the Shah's brothers and sisters and in-laws, have fled the country...
...most cheerfully so. Nabokov once pointed out in print that the novel is devoid of message, ideas or Freudian "Wiener schnitzel dreams." The despair of the title therefore may only have been that of the penniless young ex patriate author who supported himself by giving tennis lessons and no doubt feared that he would have to go on saying "Smotrina myachik" (Keep your eye on the ball) for the rest of his life...
...future of rock's bad, bad band has been in doubt ever since the Royal Canadian Mounted Police found 22 grams of heroin in the possession of Lead Guitarist Keith Richard 20 months ago. Out on $25,000 bail, Richard has been touring with the other Rolling Stones, but faced a possible seven-year jail term when he came to trial. Last week in Toronto he listened somberly as his lawyer described him as "a tragic person" with "a poor self image" who became a heroin addict but who has now kicked the habit. A sympathetic judge put Richard...