Word: gores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to Texan Daniel, five Democrats claimed their sure seats: the five: Mississippi's John. C., Stennis, Florida's Spessard L. Holland, Virginia's Harry Byrd, Rhode Island's John O. Pastore, all incumbents, and Representative Albert Gore...
...opposition. In Texas, Attorney General Price Daniel got both nominations for Senator Tom Connally's seat. Florida's Spessard L. Holland, Virginia's Harry Byrd and Rhode Island's John O. Pastore are all but certain to be reelected. In Tennessee, Representative Albert Gore won his only battle when he beat veteran Senator Kenneth McKellar in last summer's primary...
...bloodied--but he thrives on gore...
Rocky appears much younger than his 29 years, and smaller than his 187 Ibs. fighting weight. He does not seem made for gore & glory; he never looms, except in the ring. Apart from his flattened nose (which he broke playing football) and the inevitable scars above his eyes, he looks more like a compactly built college athlete than a fighter. He has the rich tan and softspoken, self-effacing manner (though not the grammar) of a children's swimming instructor at a country club. To strengthen his heavy weapons, Rocky wears out rubber balls with repeated squeezings...
After Cookeville, McKellar settled down to a hotel-room, handshaking campaign. He tried to be pleasant to the voters, a real effort for a man as crusty as McKellar. His friends tried to give Gore's issue a full turn. If the old man is defeated, they said, Tennessee will have two "junior" Senators and no influence in Washington. McKellar, who has ruthlessly used his power to fatten his friends and crush his enemies, talked of his appropriations committee as "the most powerful ... in the world," and pointed out that it took him 29 years to become its chairman...