Word: lost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city, confetti poured from office buildings. Signs screamed VIVA NIXON and DUMP HUMP-NIXON'S THE ONE. People jumped through police lines to shake the candidate's hand. While the excitement hardly matched a Robert Kennedy happening, Nixon, like Kennedy before him, suffered a scratched wrist and lost a cuff link to eager grasps...
...coppering their bets, talking less now about a "Southern strategy" and more about a "big-state strategy." Even if Wallace does take Southern states that the Republicans had hitherto counted on, they reason, Nixon can still win handily by capturing just a couple of the big states he lost...
That left Goodell, and a couple of others. Former Senator Kenneth Keating apparently lost out because of his age, 68. Congressman Ogden Reid, a liberal from suburban Westchester, was eliminated because he seemed too much like the state's other Republican Senator, Jacob Javits. Goodell, a moderate conservative from upstate, would provide a sounder balance to Javits. And. at 42, he appears to have a long and bright political future...
...general manager, Jim Campbell, Denny established what he described as a "mutual-irritation society," which was largely a result of the pitcher's propensity for popping off about Tiger Stadium, Detroit fans, his teammates?and just about anything that came to mind. Denny became so annoying that after Detroit lost the 1967 pennant by one game, rumor had it that he was on the trading block...
Since he left the White House in 1964, Pierre Salinger has dabbled in both politics and business. The former press secretary to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson served five months as interim U.S. Senator from California, then lost an election for a full term. He left the $50,000-a-year vice-presidency of Continental Airlines last January and campaigned for the late Robert F. Kennedy, After Kennedy's assassination, he worked for Senator George McGovern. Now, with McGovern out as a presidential aspirant, Salinger's focus of attention has come back to commerce...