Word: raced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with his last name, U.S. Rep Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-Mass.) sure has a hard time getting what he wants in the Democratic Party, and that is something for which Massachusetts citizens can be thankful. After crushing his Republican opponent Glenn Fiscus in the race to represent the Eighth District, Kennedy lost his bid for a seat on the House Appropriations Committee to Rep. Chester Atkins (D-Mass.), who will now replace retiring Rep. Edward Boland (D-Mass.) on the panel...
...race was a very divisive one, as Kennedy and Atkins tried to woo the other members of the state's delegation in an extensive campaign. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-56 (D-Mass.) publicly predicted that his nephew would win the seat, but there were also delegates who believed that the spot should go to Atkins because of his seniority. The resulting confusion among the Bay State representatives nearly cost Massachusetts a spot on the committee. Rep. Bruce Morrison (D-Conn.) entered the fray, hoping to sneak into the spot by taking advantage of the split vote...
...when Joe's time to enter politics arrived in 1986, he reminded very few people of his father and uncles. He was not smooth, not polished and certainly not articulate. Reporters covering the congressional race dubbed him "The Wizard of Uhs," because of his jumbled sentence fragments. But that did not matter because he was a Kennedy, and Kennedys usually win political elections--especially in Massachusetts...
...late days of the race, Turner's pitch grew increasingly shrill. U.S. officials had remained silent to avoid any hint of interference in Canadian affairs. Yet when Ronald Reagan made a bland 30-second reference to the free- trade pact in a long-planned speech on global trade -- the President called the accord "an example of cooperation at its best" -- Turner described Reagan's words as a "major breach of courtesy between the two nations" and castigated Mulroney for getting "his good friend at head office, Ronald Reagan, to help him do a job he can't complete himself." Again...
PARTING THE WATERS: AMERICA IN THE KING YEARS, 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch (Simon & Schuster; $24.95). The first half of a two-volume biography as social history puts Martin Luther King Jr. at the center of the American revolution in race relations that began with sit-ins and Freedom Rides and ended with President Lyndon B. Johnson maneuvering a stalled civil rights bill through Congress...