Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outcome of small, deadly skirmishes in the 435 U.S. congressional districts that control of the House of Representatives lies-and control of the House can make or break a presidential administration. In 1956, with both parties struggling desperately to control the House (the Democrats now have a 29-vote margin), Republicans and Democrats have come up with fresh, fascinating faces to run for congressional office -and to an astonishing degree the newcomers are involved in the closest House contests...
...Mclntosh, 34, Air Force fighter pilot, who flew 31 missions over Europe during World War II, was shot down four days after Dday, spent the summer of 1944 working with the French underground. Mclntosh is rated neck and neck with Democrat Ira Dean McCoy, 67. Holding a narrow margin over Texas only Republican incumbent, Bruce Alger, 38, onetime Princeton football center, is Dallas County District Attorney Henry M. (for Menasco) Wade, 41, who enlisted in the Navy as an apprentice seaman, rose to lieutenant j.g., served two years in the Pacific aboard the carrier Hornet. After one defeat...
...bottom, at 600 ft. below the surface, was a steel table. Boatswain Wookey's job was to descend to the table in an ordinary diving suit and stay there for a specified time. If he accomplished this and survived, he would break the diving record by a wide margin...
...Narrow Margin. The scientists on board the Reclaim had figured on his staying at 600 ft. for exactly three minutes. Wookey stayed two minutes longer to untangle his air tube. This threw the dive off schedule and threatened Wookey's narrow margin of safety. As his shipmates began to haul him up, a sudden chill struck through him. "It was the most intense cold," he said, "that I ever felt. That cold gets into your guts, and you feel you can't stand...
...defensive lapse on two missed tackles let Dartmouth's outside right Jim Kennedy get to a lose ball. Kennedy fired a perfect shot to the left hand corner which completely beat goalie Finkelstein for the winning margin. Inside right Bob Googins rubbed salt in the wound with a final goal 15 seconds before the game ended...