Word: near-misses
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...seat in 1978, and missed the runoff after the Democratic primary by 185 votes out of 85,000 cast. "From a 'yellow dog' Democratic district (where it's said that a yellow dog could win an election if he was listed on the Democratic ballot), Edwards says that his near-miss at age 26 shows that a young person can be elected to Congress-yet he still finds Untermeyer's viewpoint and discussion useful. "The speakers have shown that politics is not always the fund and games and glory everyone makes...
...near-miss by sophomore Chris Papagianis early in the fourth period was the closest the Crimson came to a goal in regulation play...
...Bill Campbell came on for Bob Stanley in the bottom of the ninth and after a few near-miss pitches and an intentional walk to Chambliss, had loaded the bases for Paul Blair to play hero. Blair singled over a drawn-in Butch Hobson and Yanks had reciprocated the Sox three-game sweep of a week ago. Let the dogfight resume, nobody is going to win the 'East easy...
...Kirkland House offense exploded. Sophomore Lucy Wood fired a near-miss shot hitting the post. Minutes later, senior Scott McNeilly assisted teammate Garrity who put it away for Kirkland with a shot over the shoulder of the Winthrop goalie...
Pulcinella is the Jeffrey company's first near-miss after a string of Diaghilev revival hits. Last spring, for example, the troupe offered a restaging of Massine's Parade-about a bizarre Paris street fair-that is a very model of How to Do It Right. Dating from 1917, this nose-thumbing effort to epater les bourgeois was another all-star spectacular; conceived by Poet Jean Cocteau, it had jaunty Picasso sets and costumes -including a pah- of cubist constructions that might fairly be described as architecture on the move-and a maundering score by Erik Satie punctuated...