Word: ohio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hour after hour the uncertainty continued. Even after midnight, Eastern Standard Time, the division hovered uncannily close in New York, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Iowa, Virginia, Maine, Mississippi, Hawaii, New Mexico...
...turned out, Carter, who said he did not want to be beholden to any interest groups, has a few debts to pay off. Labor unions worked feverishly to turn out votes for him, and could claim that their efforts were critical in Pennsylvania, Texas and Ohio. If there was any other one group to which Carter owed a great deal, it was the blacks. Four out of five blacks voted for the Georgian, and they apparently made the difference for him in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Louisiana and Mississippi...
...Robert Byrd and Mississippi's John Stennis all won easily. So did Lowell Weicker of Connecticut, the Watergate committee's Republican hair shirt. But one of the Senate's most famous names will be missing. In a stunning defeat, Robert Taft Jr., son and namesake of Ohio's "Mr. Republican," lost to Millionaire Businessman Howard Metzenbaum, whom he had defeated six years ago in another close battle...
...Also in Ohio, Cleveland's Democratic city councilwoman Mary Rose Oakar, 36, took over the vacated seat of Democrat James V. Stanton (who lost in his try for a Senate nomination) without Republican opposition. Oakar won her decisive Democratic primary nomination by pointing out that among several major candidates, she was the only non-lawyer and the only woman...
...like rooting for Northwestern in the Big 10. The Wildcats lost their 15th straight game on Saturday before the smallest crowd in their modern history, and they don't have the resources to match Ohio State, Notre Dame, or Michigan in the Midwest recruiting wars. There's just no light at the end of their tunnel, and there's no light at the end of the one in Baltimore either...