Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wesleyan narrowed the margin to 25 to 20 before the starters returned. Muncaster tallied five quick points and Canty two to register a 32-20 half-time margin...
Despite sloppy ball-handling and shooting, the varsity was never in trouble. Wesleyan could not keep up with the fast-breaking quintet when it chose to run, or with the slow, calculating five when it chose to play control ball. After the margin mounted to 53 to 28, substitutes entered to add the final points with
...Looking back over the big-league baseball season, sportswriters decided that the 27 victories with which Pitcher Don Newcombe won the Dodgers the pennant far outweighed his dismal failure in the World Series. By a margin of 40 points over his aging teammate, Pitcher Sal Maglie, Big Newk was named the National League's Most Valuable Player...
...idea that brought shudders to liberal Republicans. Other possibilities: ex-Governor Horace A. Hildreth, 53, now U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan; University of Maine President Arthur Hauck, 63, a staunch Eisenhower supporter; and Congressman Clifford Mclntire, the only Republican Representative from Maine to be re-elected by a comfortable margin this year (one was defeated, one squeaked through). Whoever gets the nomination will probably have to go up against popular Democratic Governor Edmund S. Muskie, 42, who won re-election last September in a landslide...
...Democratic margin, rumbled Bill Knowland, "is so narrow that there is going to have to be coordination between the leaderships to get anything done." The U.S. Senate under his leadership, indicated Lyndon Johnson, will follow the same moderate course he charted for the 84th Congress. Said Johnson: "We'll have a good, reasonable group of men working for the best interests of the country...