Word: joe
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Permanent Minority. After Shafer won the governorship in 1966, Joe Napolitan, a gifted political manager who had worked for the Democrats, inspected his party's hardening arteries and concluded. "The Democratic Party in Pennsylvania is ready for a major reorganization." Progress since Napolitan's critique has been nil. Former Governor George Leader observes that his party has shown "no sense of urgency" in coping with its problems...
Winthrop coach Joe Mullin pointed out the extenuating circumstances in his team's failure to score against the Dunster Funsters. "We had a week's lay-off after a heartbreaking 28-26 loss to Kirkland House," he said, "and, after all, Dunster is the most highly touted touch football team this year...
Combining an aggressive passing attack with a balanced running game, Eliot successfully challenged Winthrop's defensive efforts. Coach Joe Mullin said he was "unable to balance his passing and blitzing defenses...
More interesting is the darker side of "professionalization"--the legalistic style. The police try to do the impossible: go by the letter of the law all the time. They act like book-following Joe Fridays even in an obscure quarrel on a back street. Or, as an Oakland sergeant puts...
...brief, the patrolman's duty of maintaining order should be treated for what it is--a delicate, lonely job more fitted for a diplomat than a Joe Friday...