Word: shrivers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...both former Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris and Sargent Shriver, who, with 11 and 9 per cent of the Democratic ballots, respectively, became darkhorses, at best, for the nod in Madison Square Garden in July--Shriver's malapropos Biblical invocation that, "Like Lazarus, I've risen from the experts' graves," notwithstanding...
...Sargent Shriver campaign bandwagon camped outside Watson Rink last night and picked up a few votes by announcing the final score of the Harvard-Cornell hockey game over its loud speaker: "Harvard won in overtime...
Ellen Barry, a Harris supporter from Somerville and a student at New York University Law School, said several members of the Kennedy family campaigned for Sargent Shriver outside the Ward 11 polls yesterday, but she said they were "flaky kids...
...some critics claim he had been ambiguous before the Iowa precinct caucuses (see PRESS). On the stump, Indiana's Birch Bayh is plagued by anti-abortion demonstrators who decry his leadership last year in the Senate against a constitutional amendment that would have outlawed most abortions. Sargent Shriver does not favor overturning the Supreme Court decision, but proposes setting up "life-support" centers to counsel women seeking abortions on whether or not to really have the operation. Ellen McCormack, 49, a housewife from Merrick, N.Y., is running hard in the Democratic primary in the state-as well...
...Barry Goldwater back in 1964. Miller, now 61, was speaking at the Washington Press Club's annual congressional dinner on the ironies of presidential politics. "I lost the vice presidency by 16 million votes. I wasn't invited anyplace for six years," he noted. "In 1972, Sarge Shriver lost the vice presidency by nearly 20 million votes-and [now] he's running for President." Still, there was one dividend from the oblivion that followed the 1964 campaign. "I got a TV commercial," said Miller, referring to his "nobody-knows-me" credit card ad. "But as a result...