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...grandmother, "the most decisive influence in my life." Mead describes her in words that apply equally well to herself: "She was unquestionably feminine, and wholly without feminist aggrievement. She had gone to college when this was a very unusual thing for a girl to do, she had a firm grasp on anything she paid attention to, she married and had a child, and she had a career...
...David S. Broder, chief political correspondent for the Washington Post, based his often prescient columns on a thorough grasp of Washington realities and extensive travels through the country. Broder pinpointed a paradox in the voters' mood: "We're not notably consistent in any respect. We want to keep the Russians and Chinese in their places, but we want to end the draft. We want the benefits of mass production techniques, but we want relief from the drudgery of assembly-line jobs...
Following Nixon's cue. Chafee also organized a small Democrats for Chafee Committee that he hoped would make at least some inroads into the Democratic strength. His regular organization pledged itself to get out every possible Republican vote and Chafee hoped that with a strong grasp on Nixon's coattails he would be pulled to victory...
...civil anarchy." He was not far from wrong. The police department, which has, to say the least, a checkered history, has not done all it might to clean up Gary's Augean stables. At one point, a police detective literally whisked away a prime suspect from the grasp of federal agents and tore through the town with him at 85 m.p.h. Earlier this year, another officer was indicted for perjury; instead of suspending him, the town's civil service commission promoted him spectacularly from sergeant to captain...
Although Studds was leading weeks by 33,600 to 26,466 with only about 40 per cent of the vote counted, the Democrat seemed to have victory safely in his grasp by running ahead of his expected totals in New Bedford, Plymouth and Norwell