Word: sams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Johnson's farming forebears were doomed to failure despite their heroic labors, a trauma that helped shape the young Lyndon. He began running away from home while still a toddler. As a cousin puts it, "He wanted attention. He wanted to be somebody." After watching his father Sam, an incorruptible six-term state legislator, go broke trying to raise crops in the merciless hill-country dirt, Lyndon opened a propaganda campaign against him. Whenever the boy received a mild thrashing, he would holler loud enough to be heard across Johnson City. He seemed, as Caro puts...
...elected Richard L. (Rich) Trumka, 33, a lawyer and third-generation miner, to head the 220,000-member U.M.W. (peak membership in 1942: 595,000). That will make Trumka the youngest leader of a major labor union in the U.S. when he takes office next month. He defeated Incumbent Sam M. Church Jr., 46, who was appointed to the job in 1979, when Arnold Miller resigned because of his health...
...Frederic Golden. Reported by Sam Allis/Houston and Jerry Hannifin/Cape Canaveral
...decidedly unscientific" poll that proved to be highly accurate. That evening Boston Correspondent Joelle Attinger saw Connecticut Senate Candidate Toby Moffett transformed within hours from "an eerily calm" fellow telling fishing stories into a crushed politician whose voice repeatedly broke as he conceded defeat. And Houston Bureau Chief Sam Allis was attending a sumptuous bash for an overconfident Texas Governor Bill Clements, when the victory party suddenly turned into a wake. Allis hurried to opponent Mark White's headquarters, where what might have been "a political wake had become a full-blown victory party...
...foreign aid appropriations that had somehow benefited Communist Cuba. In California, Republican Peter Cost, a candidate for the state assembly, showed a TV spot in which three actors dressed up to look like especially vicious convicts sat around in a jail cell and praised Cost's opponent, Democrat Sam Farr, for opposing the death penalty...