Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John received his biggest publicity splash in 1933, the day after Harvard upset Yale by a 19 to 6 margin. Two days before the game, some gentlemen from the Lampoon abducted the Eli mascot, Handsome Dan II, from his New Haven kennel. The Sunday following the game, newspapers all over the nation ran frontpage photos of Dan licking John's feet--or, at any rate, his pedestal. The pictures did not reveal the raw hamburger that was smeared at the base of the statute...
Virginia. The three Republicans who upset their Democratic opponents and won seats in the House have an average age of 29. The youngest is Bill Wampler, 26, a Lincolnesque newspaper reporter from Bristol who traveled 35,000 miles and made 250 speeches in eight months of campaigning. The biggest margin in the three races (2,543 votes) was piled up by Richard H. Poff, 29, an air force veteran from Radford. The third of the young men, Joel T. Broyhill, 32, of the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., was a regional Nixon. When his opponent charged that some houses built...
Michigan. The Democrats' Governor G. Mennen Williams was reelected, over the Republicans' Fred M. Alger Jr., by so small a margin (less than 8,000) that there will probably be a recount. In 1950, Williams squeezed in with a recount...
...majority of U.S. newspaper editors, Eisenhower's victory came as no surprise; in an A.P. poll before the election, U.S. editors predicted that Ike would win by a comfortable margin. It did come as a surprise to many of the campaign correspondents and the pundits, whose own personal attraction to Adlai Stevenson seemed to have fooled them into believing the voters thought that way too. Day after election, reporters and editors settled down to do a competent job of reporting and interpreting the results...
...slow roller into the far corner, making the score 4 to 1 at halftime. With six minutes gone in the third period, Vreeland scored his second goal, drawing Brown to within two goals, but Berk Johnson countered shortly after to give the Crimson a seemingly comfortable 5 to 2 margin...