Word: postmortem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heavily unionized areas, such as Lucas County (Toledo), bludgeoned Taft by giving Young a 33,000-vote plurality out of 179,900 votes; Nixon lost that county by only 8,000 votes. Said young Bob in an election postmortem: "The organized-labor vote was very effective in the Ohio campaign. It was just about the whole campaign organization. I suspect they were effective because they stayed behind the scenes and ran things quietly...
...ritual to which he had become accustomed and which he accepted, unwillingly but gracefully. Grouped around the desk in the Baltimore clubhouse were half a dozen reporters for the usual postmortem. They watched Hank Bauer reduce an empty beer can to tin foil with one quick crunch of his hammy fist. "They gotta catch us," Bauer announced. "And if we keep winning, they can't, can they?" Silence. "But Hank," somebody wanted to know, "is the long summer beginning to get to your players...
...Nixon's performance in the debates; but many pros assign Lodge some of the blame too. Particularly irritating to them was his habit of napping each afternoon, regardless of the press of his schedule. Said Goldwater, in a slightly snide aside during last week's primary-night postmortem: "We can't beat the Democrats with a man who campaigns only an hour...
Within a month, she was legally able to do just that. She had interested President de Gaulle in her plight, the press had rallied to her cause, and the Nation al Assembly had passed a unique law al lowing the President of the Republic to "authorize the celebration" of postmortem marriages...
...five-year study of the R.C.A.F.'s fatal accidents, said Dr. Manning, postmortem examination of the heart was possible in 24 cases, and eight pilots were found to have had coronary artery disease severe enough to be considered a probable cause of the accident. More significantly, said Dr. Manning, four of these eight had previously shown ECG abnormalities, even though the trouble had not been severe enough to ground them immediately...