Word: lameduck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last spring, when Maurine, now 55, confided to close friends that she did not want to run for re-election in 1966, they dissuaded her from announcing the decision, on the grounds that it would make her a lameduck Senator too soon. Last week, after months of rumor, the word in Washington was that Senator Neuberger still intends to become plain Mrs. Solomon next year...
...succeed himself, was in a fighting mood. Said he: "The history of our state, as we all know, is replete with instances in which the second half of an administration becomes a poaching ground for unscrupulous politicians.This is not going to happen this time. This administration will become a lameduck administration at high noon Jan. 17, 1967, and not ten seconds earlier...