Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past few months, the Republicans' chances have resembled an erratic fever chart. After Richard Nixon's resignation, the party hoped to lose no more than 20 House seats. Then came the pardon. Says a G.O.P. Congressman from New Jersey: "I think Republicans in each congressional district picked up 20,000 votes when Nixon resigned, and lost 10,000 when Ford pardoned...
...years ago, McHale published two exhilarating novels in quick succession: Principato and Farragan's Retreat. In both he revealed wild comic gusto, a youthful, vengeful rage at certain vagaries of the Roman Catholic Church, and a visceral knowledge of middle-class Irish and Italians around Philadelphia and the Jersey shore. McHale was never a stylist; he made up in energy what he lacked in elegance...
...change is the result of an adjustment in the scholarship guidelines of the College Scholarship Service (CSS) in Princeton, New Jersey. The guidelines, voluntarily followed by Harvard and colleges across the country, are used to compute how much a student's family...
Most people associate viral hepatitis, a debilitating and potentially fatal liver disease, with polluted water, contaminated shellfish or unsterilized hypodermic needles. But there is another way that the water-borne hepatitis viruses can find their way into humans: by mosquito. Researchers from the New Jersey Medical School and the Veterans Administration Hospital in East Orange, N.J., report in the A.M.A. Journal that they became suspicious after studying an epidemic of hepatitis that hit New Jersey in 1955. None of the victims was a drug addict, and none had eaten shellfish or come into contact with known hepatitis carriers...
...Jersey St. in Boston, the Red Sox had much more trouble moving men around the base-paths. As 26,495 looked on, the Bosox hit Cuellar's assortment of slow pitches for eight hits and collected four walks, but stranded...