Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Candid. In Manila, there were no takers for a $25 prize offered to any man at a National Press Club gathering who had a picture of his mother-in-law with...
...President of the U.S. went into his first post-election press conference the morning after Election Day with his chin high and a jaunty half-smile on his lips, but when he left half an hour later, he was drawn, grey, visibly weary. Veteran White House reporters had never seen him tire so fast. It was plain that the Democratic landslide had jolted Dwight Eisenhower badly-that he found it painful to talk about...
Rocky himself was making no promises either way. Said he: "I have no other interest in any other job except being Governor of this state." But the size and scope of his victory had made him a threat to Nixon whether he liked it or not. An Associated Press poll of Republican state chairmen last weekend showed 20 pointing to Nixon as a clear front runner, two (from New York and Massachusetts) claiming Rocky was already the leader-and ten who said it was a tossup between Nixon and Rockefeller...
...pundits who write the day-to-day political stories for U.S. newspapers, radio and television are down-the-line liberal Democrats. To their professional credit, they did not permit their pro-Democratic bias to control their predictions of what would happen on Election Day. In general, the reporting-punditing press previewed the 1958 elections with considerable prescience and quite a lot of caution. They had the trend right, but in the main they were either unwilling to make specific forecasts or they underestimated the size of the Democratic sweep...
Brown has a predominantly sophomore team with an excellent goalie, mediocre backs, and a below-par line. John Master, the Bruin goalie, is supposed to be the finest sophomore prospect Brown has come up with in many years. Dick Press and Bill Stamper are the fullbacks, but behind them there is no one to fill in. Captain Dick Ramsden will head a halfback line along with Sal Rena and Foster Ballard, while Arnie Hetzer, Howard Whitcomb, Bill Vandentorn, Bill Pearson, and Al Tapper make up the forward line...