Word: shoo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election last week, Poulson figured as a shoo-in for a third term. The nine-candidate field was full of flyweights. There were no issues in the nonpartisan election ("It was the most boring campaign I can remember," said a local editor), and only 41% of the voters turned out. But the election did not quite work out according to plan. Poulson led, but his 179,273 votes were nearly 100,000 less than the combined total of his opponents and he was forced into a May 31 runoff election with former Democratic Congressman Sam Yorty, a lawyer and persistent...
Double Winner. The outcome of the Maple Leafs-Red Wings fracas turned on a combination of three factors. Toronto was hamstrung by injuries to key men. And the Leafs let down, sure they were a shoo-in after losing only twice to the Wings in 14 previous games. The Wings, on the other hand, particularly slopeshouldered Veteran Gordie Howe and Goalie Terry Sawchuk, played far above their mid-season form...
...East, RPI is a shoo-in to be chosen one of the tournament teams by the NCAA selection committee. After that, in the few weeks that remain in the season, it will be a battle between B.C., Harvard, St. Lawrence--and may be even Middlebury--for the second team choice. (Middlebury attracted more attention by routing Amherst 16 to 1 Wednesday. Ranked fifth in the East, the Panthers now have a 12-1 record...
Charley O'Brien, the man in charge, is short and brush-haired, and holds his cigarette in a clenched fist. He had not bothered to take off his trench-coat. "Ward's a shoo-in," he stated, "because Kennedy's gonna win Massachusetts by 500,000 votes for sure." He spread out a Boston Globe on one of the six empty tables in the headquarters. "Look at that--the Herald, the Globe, and the Traveler have all gone back on their accusation that Ward's name is printed heavier on the ballot...
Kennedy, he declared, is far from a shoo-in at this time, and despite the rising tide of the Democratic campaign the results of the election are still in question...