Word: shoo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even safe to say, for example, that Johnson would be a shoo-in if he ended the Viet Nam war. Ironical ly, the G.O.P. could benefit, since there would then be no hesitation about "changing horses in midstream," and the key issues would become the President's personality and his management of the Great Society...
...Republican Party keeps faith with its fine tradition of giving us the best it has, then George Romney should be a shoo...
...their opponents to only 228 yds. per game-71 yds. on the ground. Enemy quarterbacks have completed only 45% of their passes against the Cowboys, and they have been dumped for losses 39 times. "We seem to have become a very strong team," says Landry-who should be a shoo-in for Understater of the Year...
...Shoo-Out. Many Midwest G.O.P. victories resulted simply from general discontent with the Administration. Republicans gained five congressional seats in Ohio, where voters recalled all three of their Democratic freshmen, chief among them Cincinnati's capable John Gilligan, narrowly beaten (margin: 7,832 votes out of 131,340) by Robert Taft Jr.. son of Mr. Republican. In Iowa, where five Democrats swept out veteran Republican Congressmen in 1964, the only survivor was Representative John Culver, who had a weak challenger in Cedar Rapids Mayor Robert Johnson...
...Democrats went down; Lynn Stalbaum lost his seat to ex-Congressman Henry C. Schadeberg, whom he defeated in 1964, and John Race fell before handsome Republican Assemblyman William Steiger. In North Dakota, Democratic Newcomer Rolland Redlin was wiped out. Even one Democratic freshman who had been considered a virtual shoo-in for reelection was shooed out: Nebraska's hard-working Clair Callan, after a nightlong seesaw count, finally lost to Fairbury Attorney Robert V. Denney...