Word: lost
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Elections are won and lost by the people who voted for John Kennedy because they liked his wife. Elections are determined by the aggregate of all the little plans people use to decide their vote. So you can vote according to this scheme and assume that everyone else is either voting to support your plan (which is unlikely) or is voting against your plan (which is impossible...
There is no gratification in having voted (meaninglessly) and lost. The plan for throwing the election into the House takes the likely losers (Humphrey and Wallace people) and bands them together into inevitable winners. For the plan calls for people to vote specifically for those candidates who are most likely to win and for just that reason; if it is put into effect, more people (at least the majority in every state) will be gratified than ever before in the history of U.S. elections...
...newly regained parking lot, however, will probably soon be lost again, since the MBTA must vacate the yards by January 1, 1970 to make way for the Kennedy Library construction. The title of the yards formally passed to the United States Government last spring, but the General Services Administration, the federal landlord, said in a letter that it had no objection to a City parking lot there until the MBTA pulled...
...certain sad sense, Gilligan was in the same quandary as many of the college kids and young adults who came to see him. He had fought a lot of good fights this year, won a few, lost a few, and his own political party turned out to be his toughest opponent. One remembers the two-day stretch at Chicago when he tried to hammer out a peace plank acceptable to the Kennedyites and McCarthyites. After a lot of internecine name-calling, Gilligan, Dick Goodwin, and the Kennedy loyalists finally produced the minority report. The next day it was red-baited...
...particularly good day for Harvard, and a terribly bad one for Dartmouth. The Big Green lost the toss of the coin, and from then on it was downhill...