Word: rans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Taft at the raucous G.O.P. Convention, which was described by Mr. Dooley as "a combination iv th' Chicago fire, St. Bartholomew's massacre, the battle iv th' Boyne, the life iv Jesse James and th' night iv th' big wind." Then T.R. formed a third party (Bull Moose) and ran in the election. By splitting the Republican vote, he enabled Democrat Woodrow Wilson to win. In 1920 a combination of war-weariness and opposition to Wilson's single-minded support of the League of Nations returned the Republicans to power...
Among moderate Republicans, few are more deeply rooted in the party's past -or more anxious about its future-than Maryland Senator Charles McCurdy Mathias. His great-grandfather, Charles Trail, ran for state senator with Abe Lincoln in 1864. His grandfather, Maryland State Senator John Mathias, campaigned beside Teddy Roosevelt in 1912. Mathias himself was a founder of the Wednesday Club of Republican moderates in both the U.S. House and Senate. On the eve of the Kansas City convention, TIME National Political Correspondent Robert Ajemian visited Mathias and reported...
...kingmaking United Auto Workers and challenged favored State Secretary Richard Austin, 63, for the nomination. Riegle won, 44% to 29% A former Republican Congressman whose liberal policies earned him a place on Richard Nixon's enemies list, Riegle switched to the Democrats in 1973 and this time ran as the loner against the state Democratic establishment...
...police might better have allowed a delegation of students to make the march to Johannesburg to deliver their protest, but the tradition of kragdadigheid (ironfistedness) in dealing with blacks dies slowly. At New Canada Railway Station, hard by the giant yellow waste heaps of the gold mines, the crowd ran up against another roadblock, this one heavily manned and guarded by antiriot squads reinforced with a fleet of "Hippo" armored personnel carriers. The police responded by hurling tear-gas canisters, then opened fire on the moving crowd, and the marchers panicked. This time, as it turned out, the police were...
...more than a year, Eucharistic Congress planners, whose publicity budget alone ran to $296,000, had spread expectations that Pope Paul VI would appear, only to announce as the event drew near that the pontiff, at age 78, was too infirm to hazard the trip. (He had attended previous congresses in India and Colombia but missed the most recent one, in Australia.) But, in fact, the Pope's decision was largely political. For one thing, the pontiff was wary of the partisan overtones of visiting the U.S. during an election year and being greeted by President Ford. Instead...