Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exceptional Williams lacrosse team outran, outplayed, and outshot the varsity lacrosse squad to hand the Crimson its eighth loss yesterday on a very slow Williamstown field, 7 to 2. The Crimson turned in its best performance of the season, despite the five-goal margin...
This decisive victory more than dispelled any doubts about the quality of this year's team, which had come through its indoor season unbeaten, but had been held to a bare 1/3 of a point margin by the pesky Indians in their indoor meeting...
...varsity defense collapsed in the final quarter and Boston scored three quick goals, two in the first minute, to take the lead. Lewis scored two more unassisted goals, but Collela and Rich countered to give the BLC its winning margin...
This craving, he thinks, was the main factor in Dwight Eisenhower's election in 1952. In fact, Lubell believes (as he explained in the Wall Street Journal last October) that almost any other candidate, the late Robert A. Taft included, could have won, albeit by a smaller margin than Eisenhower's. The nation was ready to take any Republican v. any Democrat because of angry opposition to a long list of disturbing Truman Administration policies, topped by Korea...
...foreign affairs that a whole series of critical measures leading up to our entry into World War II prevailed by a majority of twenty votes or less in the lower house. In the case of the extension of the "peacetime" draft, three months before Pearl Harbor, the majority margin in the House of Representatives was a single vote. Even today, the cries of indignation and alarm which may be heard constantly on both sides of the political fence seem to the casual observer to contradict any assumption of popular agreement...