Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that surprised many of his friends. He called Dever a "British-type socialist" (an extra-heavy shillelagh among Boston Irish), belabored his administration as the "most powerful, wasteful, callous, boss-ridden outfit that ever shamed this state." In the 1952 Eisenhower landslide, Herter squeaked into office. Ike's margin in Massachusetts: 208,000; Herter...
...Legislator Herter was remarkably successful in getting along with his legislature, got through a program that trimmed expenditures, streamlined administration, slowed the state's loss of industry by tax incentives and improved "business climate." When he ran for a second term in 1954, his winning margin soared to 75,252. ("As Governor," grouses a friend, "he wouldn't even fix a library card for you.") In 1956, as an outstanding G.O.P. Governor, Herter reluctantly got involved in a Herter-for-President-if-Ike-decides-not-to-run movement, and then was dragged into fancy-free Harold Stassen...
...military means but by more subtle forms of indirect aggression and the force of ideas. [The U.S. must not] take for granted the uneasy stages of truce in which we find ourselves at present, for a truce is not a resting but a working period. It represents a margin of time in which we must...
...most stirring triumphs ever recorded by an American crew, the CRIMSON eight yesterday overcame every disadvantage and extended its undefeated record by thrashing its Lampoon challengers by an unprecedented margin of 11 1/2 lengths...
...today's other race the lightweights at Annapolis will be rowing on a difficult tidal course which is often quite rough. Besides familiarity with the course, Navy possesses another advantage in its month head-start in getting on the water. The consequent differences in bladework may be a telling margin...