Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sometimes even the most sensible athlete seems to go a wee bit nutty. Take Ralph Boston: he figures the way to break the world's record in the broad jump is to hit himself on the head with a sponge...
...Igor Ter-Ovanesyan. But the wind gauge registered 5 m.p.h. (maximum allowable: 4.4 m.p.h.), and the new record did not count. So back went Boston for another try with the wind 1 m.p.h. Legs flailing, one arm flung dramatically above his head, he sailed 27 ft. 41 in. Ralph was satisfied. "Now the pressure's on the other fellow," he said. "I can be the bystander...
...Ralph Boston...
...liberal wing was led by Senator Ralph Yarborough and the animosity between Johnson and Yarborough was both deep and dramatic. It was during President Kennedy's trip to Texas, in fact, that this rivalry reached some of its most heated moments. There was substantial fear among the liberals that the money being raised by the chief political event on the President's schedule, a $100 a plate dinner to be held November 23rd, would be used by the conservatives to unseat Yarborough and keep liberals out of state offices. The Senator had even refused to ride in the same...
...same time he was one of Johnson's oldest and closest allies. "I love him like a brother," Johnson once said, "I love him more than I do Sam Houston." Like Johnson, Connally had often quarreled with Ralph Yarborough but, unlike Johnson, had not settled his differences with him. When Don Yarborough, a fellow liberal and close associate of Ralph Yarborough's but no relation, announced that he would again oppose Connally in the Democratic Primary, Connally was gravely offended and decided to launch a major attack on the liberals...