Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wolfe writes, "the most exquisite form of torture imaginable would have been to have found yourself locked inside a Seaboard railroad roomette just north of Jacksonville on the Miami-to-New York run with the radiator sizzling in an amok, red-mad psychotic overboil and George McGovern sitting beside you, telling you his philosophy of government." Boom! "In the late seventies there was the bottle of Perrier, a French soda water. The fashionable American expense-account lunch drink became lighter and lighter, but not cheaper and cheaper. The soda water sold for $2.50 a glass in Manhattan restaurants...
...whether the church had improperly taken a hand in partisan politics, a frequent question throughout the U.S. during this election year. In April, for instance, a South Dakota priest wrote colleagues across the state urging them to support an anti-abortion candidate who was opposing pro-choice Senator George McGovern...
...president of the plaintiff Abortion Rights Mobilization, suggests that the suit could have a restraining effect anyway. As Lader puts it, "I hope this frightens people enough to make them obey the law." More sobering than the suit, perhaps, were the results at the ballot box: Frank, Shannon and McGovern all won their primaries...
Then, when former President Gerald Ford spent a day campaigning for Abdnor, McGovern ran full-page newspaper advertisements noting that he and the ex-President both supported the Panama Canal Treaties, SALT II and the Equal Rights Amendment, all of which are opposed by Abdnor. As a result, Ford spent much of his time fending off hostile questions. Ford also goofed by urging that the candidates debate; apparently no one had told him that Abdnor, who has a slight speech impediment, has repeatedly refused to do just that...
...McGovern has come from behind five times to win election in South Dakota, but this year he predicts only that "it's going to be a tough finish." Win or lose, he promises that this will be his last campaign...