Word: shooed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shaplin, assistant professor of Education and associate dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Education, is the only incumbent on the CCA roster. Supposedly, Shaplin is a "sure win," for he has made a good record in two years; nevertheless, he needs every vote he can get, for shoo-ins have often found themselves shooed out fairly quickly. Each of the other five candidates firmly supports the CCA's professional approach to local school problems, and each deserves support: Gaetan R. Aicllo, Walter E. Doherty, Jr., Anthony Galluccio, Robert P. Horan, and Catherine T. Ogden. Only by electing these people...
...probable lone shoo-in, Judson T. Shaplin, an Educational School administrator, will be seeking re-election to the City School Committee endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association, the party which pledges to be "more sympathetic to requests from Harvard...
...Young Republican Club yesterday announced plans to drop its traditional mock presidential convention in 1956 "because Ike is obviously a shoo-in for re-election...
...must harness these efforts to a new and powerful surge of national effort." Despite their confident tone, and a widespread prognosis that they would increase their overall majority in the House of Commons, from their present 19 to perhaps 100 seats, the Tories are by no means a shoo-in. As ex-Prime Minister Churchill hurried back (troubled with a slight cold) from a rainy Sicilian vacation to stand at his successor's side, the News Chronicle's Gallup poll showed a 3½% decline in Tory strength, and the Tories now leading Labor by a mere...
...what we had with Truman, or do we go ahead with Ike?" Carroll accepted Ike as the issue, has attacked the Administration's farm, reclamation and rural electrification policies with considerable effect. With the help he can expect to get from Big Ed Johnson, who is a shoo-in for governor, Jinx Carroll should live up to his nickname as far as Allott is concerned...