Word: necked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon took 61 per cent of the vote in Delaware, but the two other GOP nominees were in big trouble. Senator J. Caleb Boggs appeared to have lost a close race to Democrat Joseph Biden, and Republican Governor Russell Peterson was locked in a neck-and-neck battle with challenger Sherman Tribbit that remained too close to call...
...election. He had to make a strong and striking appeal to mobilize what you could call 'movement' political forces, rather than establishment ones. He had to make strong commitments, moral commitments in order to win their allegiance. Then when confronted with the election, he had an albatross around his neck...
...voters. Opponent William Weeks, 46, is strictly Brahmin: Father Sinclair was Dwight Eisenhower's Commerce Secretary; Grandfather John was Coolidge's Secretary of War. After graduating from Harvard, Weeks himself served for a time as an assistant dean of freshmen at the college. The two are running neck and neck, but McGovern liberalism is hurting Studds...
...chose a newly created, relatively conservative district on Chicago's North Shore. Opposing him is Samuel H. Young, 49, a suburban attorney and political activist in search of his first public office. Young's campaign strategy is simple: to hang the McGovern albatross around Mikva's neck...
...work." Bob Feller, the fireballing Cleveland Indians pitcher, thought he had a more reasonable reservation: "I can't foresee any future for Robinson in big league baseball. He is tied up in the shoulders and couldn't hit an inside pitch to save his neck. If he were a white man, I doubt if they would even consider him as big league material...