Word: raced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...compelled to comment on the running of the 17th Harvard Raft Race last Sunday. During the conduct of this event. large quantities of garbage and non-biodegradable pollutants were thrown into the already sufficiently dirty Charles River. Should such an environmentally unsatisfactory event have been sponsored by my military organization, loud (and proper) objections would quickly have been made by environmentalists, students and the media. In reading your May 2nd edition, the coverage of this ecological disaster implies that Harvard University not only condones this behavior, but participates at the executive level. I am saddened by this observation...
...boring but I love it," DemocraticNational Committee Vice Chairman Lynn Cutler saidas she surveyed a race that has gone fromturbulent to utterly predictable over the pastmonth with a string of Dukakis primary victoriesin Connecticut, Wisconsin, New York andPennsylvania...
...consideration," although he gave no indication that he wanted it. Then Campaign Manager Austin and Campaign Chairman Willie Brown talked to reporters about the second spot for Jackson as if it were a live option. Dukakis responded the next day by observing that being second banana in the nomination race carries no guaranteed prize...
...player-manager, he socked a Toledo Mud Hens pitcher, who, upset at having been cut by Robinson, nearly beaned him in an exhibition game. Fired within three years, Robinson reappeared in San Francisco, where in 1982 he managed the languorous Giants into the last week of a pennant race. This time, snatching an occasional jersey in anger, he lasted only slightly longer. The word was that Robinson could not communicate with the modern ballplayers. "I communicate with them," he said. "I just tell them things they don't want to hear." The whispers were that he was especially harsh with...
What went wrong? In fact, Gore's run for the Oval Office was always a long shot. A freshman Senator who entered the race only after more notable Southern moderates such as Sam Nunn and Charles Robb had shied at the gate, Gore did well to survive until the finals. "If I had disappeared from the earth for six months and came back at the end of April to find that Al Gore was one of three candidates left, my reaction would have been near disbelief," says his friend Carter Eskew, a Washington political consultant...