Word: losers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Besides," McLaughlin continued. "I have proven my ability to get votes. As a practical political matter, you want to nominate a winner and not a loser." In 1961 he topped Augustus G. Means, the Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor by 209,000 votes. Volpe defeated Joseph Ward, the Democratic candidate for governor, by 139,000 votes...
Detroit's seventh newspaper strike in as many years ended last week, after 28 newspaperless days. As usual, everybody was a loser: the settlement represented a compromise that made neither side very happy, and the city's readers were faced with the unpleasant chore of catching up on events that had slipped past them during the last month. Meantime, in Minneapolis, the strike against the Star and Tribune [TIME, May 11] entered its fifth week, with the end not yet in sight...
Maybe. But no such suggestion came from Loser Swanberg, or from his publisher. Both watched with satisfaction as sales of Citizen Hearst spurted, helped along by deliberately ambiguous ads: "We are delighted to hear that the Pulitzer Prize Advisory Board decided that this biography was the best published last year...
...Messaggero had written a convincing argument that the "xenophobes" of Hollywood were not about to ''dig their graves with their own hands" by honoring furriners. Sophia canceled her plane reservations at the last moment, feeling too overwrought to fly halfway round the world to play the gracious loser...
...though the election is still seven months away, much of the press is already talking of Nixon as a potential loser. Columnist Marquis Childs of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch recently compared Nixon to Thomas E. Dewey as a man with a losing habit...