Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fourth congressional district, a 30 year old libertarian Harvard graduate student running as a Nixon supporter has thrown one of the state's leading liberals the scare of his political life by turning a "hopeless" primary campaign for Congress into a serious challenge...
...Corsicans have spread around the world for much the same reason Sicilians came to the U.S.-hopeless poverty at home. "We see our sons as they leave as young men and when they come back to retire on their pensions," says a Corsican detective in France. Often smuggling is the only way that Corsicans can make a living...
...champion dropped his queen back in hasty retreat. Fischer picked off a pawn with his bishop and challenged the queen, daring Spassky to take the unprotected attacking piece. If he had, Fischer would have had a two-move checkmate. Even if he moved elsewhere, Spassky's position was hopeless. After studying the board for a full minute, he stood up and shook Fischer's hand. The audience applauded and cried, "Bravo Bobby! Bravo Bobby...
...friend since their early '60s days as members of "The Chowder and Marching Society," a Republican congressional social club, he advocated Nixon for a second presidential nomination as far back as 1965. The fact that it was Nixon who urged him to take on Hubert Humphrey in a hopeless fight for a Senate seat in 1970 has had no effect on MacGregor's enthusiasm...
...work. But he is best known for A Panic in Needle Park, a perfervid account of drug addicts that became an Al Pacino movie. His next book, The Prosecutor, was an example of what Mills does as well as anyone writing now: hard, dogged, angry reporting about the morally hopeless entanglements of big-city justice. The prosecutor of the title was an overworked D.A. trying to get a Mafia conviction and discovering every sinew of the law flexed against...