Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Actually, the election was more like a ritual slaughter. Outgoing Mayor Theodore McKeldin, a former Maryland Governor and another moderate Republican, made a last-minute decision last spring not to seek re-election-likely because he saw he would lose. Lawyer Sherwood stepped into the breach, then quarreled with McKeldin during the campaign. Backed by the Baltimore Council of A.F.L.-C.l.O. Unions, D'Alesandro rolled easily into his father's office and, behind him, the Democrats won every elective municipal post...
Kentucky: Nunn Better One of the few bright touches in Kentucky's humdrum gubernatorial race was provided by an irreverent underground slogan: "Half an Oaf Is Better than Nunn." Republican Candidate Louie B. Nunn, 43, a back-country lawyer who in years past managed the successful senatorial campaigns of John Sherman Cooper and Thruston Morton, countered with his own vaguely punny slogan: "Tired of War? Vote Nunn." Kentuckians chose Nunn. Defeating Democrat Henry Ward, 58, a former highway commissioner handpicked by retiring Governor Edward Breathitt, Nunn became the first Republican Governor elected in Kentucky since...
...John R. Rarick beneath an avalanche of 836,304 votes; Rarick got only 179,846. McKeithen, an able administrator who is unopposed in a general election next Feb. 6, received widespread Negro support, and more than 250 Negroes sought office in the primary. Most fared poorly, but New Orleans Lawyer Ernest N. Morial won outright to become Louisiana's first Negro state legislator since Reconstruction, and two others won places on a Dec. 16 runoff ballot against white candidates...
...attracted by the vitality of the Khmer people." Then she and the Prince rode down the avenue in a Lincoln convertible to Sihanouk's villa on the beach at the end of the street, where she and her party of four- Britain's Lord Harlech, New York Lawyer Michael Forrestal, Washington Journalist Charles Bartlett and his wife-joined Sihanouk's wife and daughter in a sumptuous lunch...
...first, Cepeda's reception in St. Louis was cool. "The other players were not too sure about me," he says. "From everything they had heard, I was temperamental, bad for a team, a troublemaker, a clubhouse lawyer. I had to prove myself, to myself and to the other players. I had to prove that everything they wrote and said about me in San Francisco was wrong...