Word: racks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though he was assured of victory in this week's Indiana primary-his was the only name on the G.O.P. ballot-Nixon nevertheless was eager to rack up a big vote to prove to the convention delegates that the people were indeed speaking his name. The crowds suggested that they were. At the Gary airport, 5,000 people waved and shouted at him, their voices reverberating in a huge hangar. "Do you want to go down a new road," asked Nixon, "or go down an old road with new faces?" The throng left no doubt that they preferred...
...airstrip at the company's plant near the resort town of Bembridge on Britain's Isle of Wight is nothing but a sod runway. The one plane that Britten-Norman builds carries ten people in a fuselage that even its designers admit is "just an aluminum rack." It has a high, slablike wing and a top speed of only 168 m.p.h. Yet low and slow as it flies, the Britten-Norman (BN-2) Islander, as it is called, has proved to be a soaring success...
...mercy of a world and national scene over which he has no influence. Catastrophe of a grandeur sufficient to demolish LBJ, should it occur, might demolish him under any circumstances, with or without previous opposition in the primaries. Second, Kennedy by virtue of his name and reputation must rack up overwhelming margins to equal the impact of McCarthy's 42 per cent in New Hampshire: if the Kennedy charisma proves less dynamic in the event than in the propaganda, Kennedy will be committing premature political suicide...
Dwight Ware's pretty pass allowed Jack Turco to rack up Harvard's fifth goal...
...governments that often prove recalcitrant. The Russians have been unable to influence the Syrians toward moderation, and Nasser refuses their advice as often as he takes it. The deeper their penetration becomes, the more they are bound to be caught up in the bitter quarrels and mutual hatreds that rack the Middle East. Moreover, they know full well that the Arabs still depend for much of their income on Western oil companies. Since they have neither the money nor the need for that much oil, the Russians have so far been content to leave the Western oil companies alone...