Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Humphrey to continue to campaign in this vein is hardly admirable but at least logical. He has nothing to lose and everything to gain if he can awaken old phobias about Nixon. Whether it is prudent politics for Nixon suddenly to begin emulating his rival's bare-knuckled tactics is another question. The kind of speeches he made last week could serve to revive images of him as a reckless partisan. This can only spur Democrats to fight harder in the campaign's closing days...
...adjourned, they had 63 members to 37 for the G.O.P. Only 34 of the Senate's 100 seats are to be filled this year, including the one that belongs to Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, who is unopposed. A week before Election Day, the outlook is for a G.O.P. gain of anywhere from two to nine seats. That would leave the Senate with a breakdown ranging from 54 Democrats and 46 Republicans to 61 Democrats and 39 Republicans...
Last Saturday's 4-4 tie with Dartmouth disappointed both Munro and his players. Failing to follow up an early 2-0 lead taken on easy goals, the Crimson let up and watched their edge vanish. In the second half, Dartmouth gained most of the momentum, and it took a scrambling goal by Solomon Gomez late in the second overtime period to gain the tie for Harvard...
...students split into three approximately equal factions of varying contentment with the department, another third year graduate student said last night. The most discontented faction will present proposals to the department independently if they cannot gain majority support for the demands raised at the meeting, the student added...
Spengler likes to run alone, and he likes to run often. He seems to have a partially masochistic motive for the gruelling daily routine to which he puts himself. He explains this by saying, "the more pain you subject yourself to in order to gain a reward, the more meaningful the reward...