Word: squeak
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...squeak-through victory against a patsy, either. Running against three serious opponents, Hayakawa achieved a comfortable eleven-point plurality over Robert Finch, 50, his principal adversary. Finch, once a close friend of Richard Nixon's, was California's top vote getter ten years ago when he won the lieutenant governorship. Later he served as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the Nixon Administration...
...thing Jimmy Carter, Henry Jackson and Morris Udall bloodied each other in the New York and Wisconsin primaries. In New York, Jackson won almost as many delegates as the other two combined, but fell far short of the "landslide" he had predicted, while Carter barely managed to squeak by Udall in Wisconsin. The real winner was Humphrey, who hopes that a deadlock will force the Democratic convention to turn to him in July...
...There are five people still working at midnight, three of them are undergrads. A student sits at the center table screwing up his face and dragging his hand through his hair repeatedly while figuring out a problem in his notebook. A woman jiggles her foot, causing her stool to squeak in rhythm...
...work force of 85,000 by 23,000. Under Kendrick, Grant is once again emphasizing its traditional less expensive lines of apparel, beauty products and home furnishings. But the chain is still carrying a mountainous backlog of air conditioners, refrigerators and other big appliances. Even if Grant can squeak past the threat of a bankruptcy liquidation next year, its future survival could well depend on how profitably it manages to sell off its inventory of high-priced appliances...
...Radcliffe waterpolo team surged ahead in the fourth quarter of last night's game against the University of Massachusetts team to squeak out a 6-5 victory...