Word: shooed
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Townsend is carrying on the tradition in a race most political observers believe is a shoo in for Massachusetts senior senator. In the 1976 race, Kennedy clobbered all opposition winning more than two thirds of the vote. His current Republican opponent Raymond Shamie is a little Known Walpole businessman...
From the start of his campaign, Koch was logically declared a shoo-in: People throughout the state were familiar with the mayor simply because the nature of his office has routinely and frequently thrust him into the news over the last five years. And just months ago, he won a virtually unchallenged second term in city hall on both the Republican and Democratic tickets...
...routine by-election in Germiston, a working-class suburb of Johannesburg, should have been a shoo-in for Prime Minister Pieter W. Botha's National Party. Instead, Flip van der Walt, 63, barely won, carrying the district by a mere 308 of the 9,111 ballots cast. The vote reflects deep, corrosive divisions among South African whites over the country's future direction. The Rand Daily Mail judged the outcome the nation's "biggest electoral shock since 1948," when the National Party swept to power under the banner of white supremacy...
What started as a shoo-in has evolved into a tight, tough three-man race. The early leader was seven-term Congressman Barry Gold water Jr., 43, of Los Angeles, whose famous name has enormous appeal for the state's conservatives. BARRY GOLDWATER FOR THE U.S. SENATE, A TRADITION goes his slogan, and one TV spot shows him sitting on the Capitol steps with dad. Goldwater, however, now appears to be running neck and neck with Wilson and another seven-term Congressman, Paul (Pete) McCloskey of Menlo Park, near San Francisco. A Los Angeles Times poll released last week...
Laboring through her fifth exercise class of the day, East Coast Type A puffs "shoo shoo" in response to a dazzlingly fit former cheerleader's exhortation to "blow it out." The formerly flaccid Type A has lost 5 lbs. and 3 in. She has stopped smoking and can jog for 20 minutes. She agrees with Mel: "I want to feel like this forever. ' ' -By Jane O'Reilly