Word: redeeming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rear seat of a Pennsylvania National Guard Super Constellation. As much as anyone, Scranton realized that the fiasco in Cleveland had damaged his political standing and that, regardless of how he felt about the party and its 1964 nominee, he had to take some action that would redeem his own political image. Just before the plane landed, he instructed his aides to arrange a meeting for the next night at the governor's mansion at Indiantown Gap, some 20 miles from Harrisburg...
...Family. Again, the week was cyclonic. First, he set out to redeem himself in the eyes of dog fanciers, gently lifting one of his beagles by the ears and explaining to newsmen that it didn't hurt at all. Next, he went after the duffers' vote, replying to a reporter who asked him what his golf handicap was: "I don't have any handicap-I'm all handicap...
...occupied South." Vowed Egypt's President: "I swear to God to expel Britain from all parts of the Arab world. We shall shed blood and sacrifice souls, and we shall be as victorious as we were in Egypt and Yemen." For good measure, Nasser swore also to "redeem" Israel, which he called a "stooge" of Britain...
Dave Abramson will compete in the 1650-yard freestyle, and should finish is the top three. Abramson will be trying to redeem his poor showing Thursday, when he failed to qualify for the finals of the 500-yard free...
LOOKING FOR THE GENERAL, by Warren Miller. In this wild but curiously trenchant metaphysical farce, a young nuclear physicist decides that men from another planet will redeem the earth...