Word: goliaths
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Indeed, at least until Ohio, Carter performed better as David than as Goliath. As soon as he surged out front, voters perceived him to be an "in" member of the political establishment that he had so effectively criticized. He failed to foresee that the two late starters, Brown and Church, would appeal to voters as refreshing newcomers and underdogs. It did not help that Brown, Church and Udall?with Humphrey rooting restlessly from the sidelines?could challenge Carter one-on-one, while he was running everywhere. His opponents won the votes of people who were suspicious of his Southern origin...
...boats. What often followed was a seaborne game of "chicken." Ships of the two countries, in fact, came so close together in the choppy waters that they collided dozens of times. To tiny Iceland (pop. 219,000), the conflict again became a matter of David's facing down Goliath. But it was also a matter of economic survival, for cod provide 40% of the country's exports, and Reykjavik fears that massive overfishing by foreigners in Iceland's waters has been dangerously depleting the area's fish stock. London counters that codfishing near Iceland is also...
Showing where their hearts lie, the politicians gave a standing ovation to never-say-die Humphrey and only polite applause to Carter, the David turned Goliath. Nonetheless, most of the party pros at the dinner reluctantly but realistically had their minds set on Carter as their almost certain presidential nominee. Nor were those expectations changed when the news came later in the night that Carter had been narrowly upset by Idaho Senator Frank Church in the Nebraska primary. Even with that setback Carter has won twelve of 17 primaries, drawn more than 4 million votes and locked well over...
Well, it's finally happened. It seems someone serious is going to play a left-wing David to the Time/Newsweek Goliath. Last week the seventh preview edition of a new newsweekly--Sevendays, showed up on a few stands and reading rooms around here, and I have an eerie sense I am handling what may some day become a collector's item...
...friends were convinced that he would never find himself, would wind up a loser, and Redford remains fascinated by the type. Since Woodward and Bernstein could possibly be seen as anti-Establishment goads, that also probably drew him to them. In short, he may have become a Goliath in his trade, but his heart belongs to the Davids...