Word: missouri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...usual, local personalities and local issues-particularly taxes-were pivotal. But the presidential tide had some effect, helping to seat Republicans in North Carolina and Missouri. In West Virginia, Nixon's strength helped to defeat one of the nation's most promising young Democrats. Despite an investment of considerable energy, a famous name and an expenditure of $1.5 million to unseat the savvy G.O.P. Incumbent Arch A. Moore Jr., 49, lanky John D. ("Jay") Rockefeller IV, 35, was unable to overcome the Republican surge and a carpetbagger image...
...wanted to go to Notre Dame bad Papa said. "It was a big place, and they were gonna pay some good bread. The day I got accepted at Brown and Harvard, and found out that the deal with Missouri was going to come through my father sat down with my uncles and we thought about it, rather they thought about it and I decided to give it (Harvard) a chance...
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...Eagleton's home state of Missouri vented its rice against McGovern, giving its 12 electoral votes to the President. Nixon carried the state with 59 per cent of the vote, pulling GOP gubernatorial hopeful Christopher Bond along with him with 56 per cent...
...Missouri was clobbered by Nebraska 62-0. Nebraska lost to U.C.L.A. 20-17. U.C.L.A. was defeated by Michigan 26-9. Michigan barely squeaked by Northwestern 7-0. And Northwestern was manhandled by Notre Dame 37-0. That, by all the rules of logic, means that Missouri should have lost to Notre Dame by a lopsided score of something like a zillion to zip. Right...