Word: gravel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this: who in LaJolla or Orange County or Pasadena plays hoop on a makeshift. peach-basket-and-dirt court behind a shotgun house? Who in sunny California dribbles his digits numb in snow, rain, gravel and mud, day in, day out, religiously, every day of the year...
Later I read that The Watkins Glen Corporation has announced plans to fill in the bog with gravel...
...Talmadge 75% and South Carolina's Ernest Boilings 71%. Other re-elected Democrats were George McGovern of South Dakota Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut, Alan Cranston of California, Thomas Eagleton of Missouri Birch Bayh of Indiana, Frank Church of Idaho, Warren Magnuson of Washington, Mike Gravel of Alaska and Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin...
...four defeated Nixon loyalists were from New Jersey: Charles Sandman Jr. and Joseph J. Maraziti. The gravel-voiced Sandman, whose raucous defense of Nixon had variously appalled or delighted millions of viewers, was beaten in his seaside district by William J. Hughes, a former assistant county prosecutor who had narrowly lost to Sandman four years ago. Although defeated this time, 108,486 to 76,962, Sandman said he had no regrets about his pro-Nixon stance. "If I had to do it over, I would do the same thing," he declared! Maraziti succumbed to the combination of Watergate, newspaper reports...
...points ahead of Republican Rival H.L. Richardson. Traditionally Republican Arizona will probably elect Democrat Raul Castro as Governor and perhaps even a Democratic state senate. The Democratic sweep is likely to be blocked only in Alaska, where Governor William Egan is trailing Republican Challenger Jay Hammond, and Senator Mike Gravel shows only a slim lead over his Republican rival, C.R. Lewis, a state senator and member of the John Birch Society's advisory council...