Word: pouchier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cliché. Democrat Bob Wagner's regime may be tired, but it is not about to roll over and play dead. At 55, running for his fourth four-year term, the mayor looks older, wearier and pouchier than ever-but he is recognized as a real master in the art of political survival. On the day that Lindsay announced his candidacy, Wagner found himself in the position of announcing a record city budget of $3.87 billion, involving $255 million of what Wagner lamely described as "borrow now, repay later" financing. That was embarrassing, but Wagner has come back strong...
...Alabama had changed, its racial feelings inflamed by violence at Montgomery, Anniston and Birmingham. Big Jim had changed, too. His hair was greyer, his face was pouchier, his lines had lost their punch. When the votes were counted last week in Alabama's Democratic primary. Big Jim was third in a field of seven. Selected to face each other in the May 29 runoff: former Circuit Judge George Wallace, 42, who promises that he will go to jail before permitting integrated schools, and Tuscaloosa State Senator Ryan deGraffenried. 37, a racial moderate. If it was any consolation to Folsom...
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