Word: edwina
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prevalent interpretation is that Wilder was forced to eke out such a narrow victory only because he was a black candidate. The most common benchmark is to measure Wilder's vote against the come-from-behind 54% to 46% triumph of Democrat Donald Beyer over Edwina ("Eddy") Dalton in the battle for Lieutenant Governor. What gives piquancy to this comparison is that Beyer, a Volvo dealer and political neophyte, was running against the widow of a former Governor. "Wilder would have won a victory similar to Beyer's if he had been white," contends Sabato. But this...
...years ago, research librarian Edwina Barron, 46, rented a condo in Euclid, a mostly white Cleveland suburb. Just a month later, she fled to a bungalow in a quiet, racially mixed neighborhood in Cleveland. Here she describes an encounter with a white neighbor who had been drinking that occurred just one night after she moved into the Euclid condo. The incident persuaded...
...financial support. Abortion-rights groups are planning to bypass the Virginia race and pour their money into New Jersey. To the extent that they make a major effort in Virginia, it will be on behalf of Democrat Don Beyer, a pro-choice candidate who is running against Republican Edwina Dalton, an antiabortionist, for Lieutenant Governor...
Incidents like the one in the Humana emergency room are not rare, despite federal regulations. This year, a Miami resident, Edwina Hayes, suffered with a bullet in her back for 13 hours as she shuttled from one South Florida Hospital to another before an emergency room finally admitted...
...Coens constantly joke with their subjects, breaking down any real interest in their fortunes with a barrage of irreverent yuks. H.I. is a moron, yet drawls with the locution of a frustrated poet; meanwhile the relatively stable Edwina turns into a maniacal parody of motherhood. "Ah love him so much!" she wails over the purloined baby, all of 14 seconds after clapping eyes...