Word: gorings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East Ridge, Tenn. (1950 pop. 9,645). After a sample of the most lavish Democratic primary campaign that local politicians could remember, Millionaire Segregationist Prentice Cooper, 62, three-time Governor (1939-45) and Harry Truman's Ambassador to Peru (1946-48), poured it on incumbent U.S. Senator Albert Gore. "He is drawing $75 a day to represent the people of Tennessee," bellowed Cooper in a stomping cadence, "but he is supporting a oneworld, do-gooder, global-giveaway policy which has squandered the resources of the nation." Why, Gore even voted for reciprocal trade, in spite of the state...
...Brown was early tagged as a fancy-dan by boxing's matchmakers, often had trouble getting fights. "I had to go to Panama for a year and to Australia for six months to find someone to fight." he recalls. But Joe's fortunes improved after Trainer Bill Gore took him over late in 1955, set about making him more of a slugger...
Using the Gore-inspired technique. Joe Brown whipped Champion Wallace ("Bud") Smith in a nontitle bout. He fought Smith again for the championship in August 1956. Joe broke his right hand in the second round, fought the champ one-handed. In the 14th, chancing his right just once, he floored Smith, went on to win the decision...
...most gifted of our young men of letters is Gore Vidal; and I do not say this merely to give a plug to a former schoolmate of mine. He has attained high esteem through his novels (The City and the Pillar), television dramas (Badge of Honor), and movie scripts (The Bachelor Party), to say nothing of short stories and literary criticisms...
...Tennessee last week, three-time Governor Prentice Cooper, 62, stepped into the primary race for the U.S. Senate against able Democrat Albert Gore. Cooper, white supremacist, decided that Tennessee's resentment over Little Rock will let him whip up a lively campaign before the Aug. 7 Democratic primary, started off by reminding voters that Albert Gore refused to sign the 1956 Congressional Southern Manifesto denouncing the Supreme Court's 1954 desegregation decision...