Word: margin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much campaigning. His opponent, Gerald R. Ford Jr., 35, did. A Grand Rapids lawyer and onetime University of Michigan football star, Ford had hundreds of volunteers pushing doorbells for him, time & again dared Jonkman to debate his foreign-policy stand. Jonkman refused. Back-slapping "Jerry" Ford's margin: nearly...
...once delivered thumping majorities for conservative Coke Stevenson, had turned on him and delivered them to New Dealing Lyndon Johnson. How Parr could deliver was shown in Duval County's return: Johnson 4,622; Stevenson 40. When the count of 988,295 votes was complete, Johnson had a margin...
...hare and tortoise race, and neither is it a race between two closely matched thoroughbreds ; it is a very ordinary horse race -a race in which one horse already has a commanding lead . . . My whole inclination is to predict the election of Thomas E. Dewey by a heavy margin and devote my time and efforts to other things...
...vote counting began, Stevenson got a narrow lead; but his backers' jubilation was soon quenched. Twenty-four hours after the polls closed, with 900,000 votes in, he had only an eight-vote margin. Then Johnson passed him, ran up a 717-vote lead...
...bother him so much that he began bending his tee shots. On the 13th hole, he hooked into deep rough, was in more rough with his second shot, struck a tree with his third, and conceded hole and match after his fourth barely reached the green. Billows' margin: an overwhelming...