Word: shoo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conservative Southerner, is a cinch to win the seat of Alabama's retiring Lister Hill. Five Republicans-Illinois' Everett Dirksen, New Hampshire's Norris Cotton, New York's Jacob Javits, Utah's Wallace Bennett and Vermont's George Aiken-are likewise rated as shoo...
...Colonel Omar Torrijos, the Guard's executive officer, who had been ordered to leave Panama, and Major Boris Martinez, who is the commander of Chiriqui province military zone. At their bidding one evening last week, their brother officers quietly dispatched units from the 3,900-man force to shoo civilians off the streets of the country's two main cities, Panama City and Colón, seize the radio stations and close the international airport. Arias, 67, who is experienced in such matters, at once drove the half-mile from Panama City to the haven of the Canal...
...reorganize the campaign. Junior Senator Fred Harris, a Hubert Humphrey lieutenant, became cochairman. There is even a newly formed "Minis for Monroney" to combat the "Bellmon Belles." Yet the latest polls show that Monroney has slipped behind Bellmon by as much as 6%. No Republican ever rates a shoo-in role in Oklahoma. However, unless Harris goes on the national ticket and somehow sweeps the state, Monroney may get to know Oklahoma much better after the November election...
Since Memorial Day, Fulbright has been combing hill and hollow across Arkansas for votes in next week's Democratic preferential primary. Normally a shoo-in, he is involved this year in a bitter, four-cornered fight. Last week at the annual Mount Nebo chicken fry near Dardanelle, Ark., one critic got the biggest cheer of the day when she attacked his absenteeism from his home state. Minutes later, Fulbright himself drew only lukewarm applause...
...poll more than pays for its cost (about $10,000 for a medium-sized state) by swelling the campaign war chest. Says Nixon: "When the polls go good for me, the cash register really rings." On the other hand, a candidate does not want to appear to be a shoo-in, lest his campaign workers slow down and his voters stay home on Election Day. The art of selective leaking is to make it appear that the candidate's strength is steadily rising but always slightly below the expected margin of victory. In the New Hampshire primary, for example...