Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sooner was Mark Hatfield elected Governor of Oregon last month than the energetic young (36) Republican dashed off a pro forma request to Oregon's eccentric Democratic Senator Wayne Morse. Said Hatfield: Would Morse, as senior member of the state's congressional delegation, arrange a conference so that Governor and delegation could discuss federal-state problems? Replied Wayne Morse: No, nothing could come of such a meeting. Undaunted, Hatfield went ahead and held his own man-to-man conferences. Last week he worked around to the other half of the Morseberger senatorial team, Morse's onetime prot...
...Oklahoma (9-1)-was not quite up to great Sooner teams of the past, nonetheless came within a point of an unbeaten season (a 15-14 loss to Texas), dumped rugged Oklahoma State 7-0, looked forward to an Orange Bowl date with Syracuse New Year...
...They Dream. No sooner had the victory vote been wrapped up than the D.F.L. started work for 1960-when Humphrey himself is up for re-election and is also an offbeat Democratic presidential possibility. There were lessons to be learned from the D.F.L.'s 1958 failures -failure to hold freewheeling Coya Knutson's Ninth District and need to develop a vigorous young replacement who would measure up to the D.F.L.'s home-loving and service-to-constituents standards. The D.F.L. was quick to recognize a new problem: in 1958 the long-moribund state G.O.P. developed some...
Topflight Staff. No sooner had American signed its jet contracts than it began planning for the long and involved transition from props. Though Smith personally keeps tabs on every major problem, he is surrounded by topflight staffers: Among them...
Some soldiers send epistles, say they'd sooner sleep in thistles