Word: staking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With Larry O'Brien and his organization working as though their own lives were at stake, Kennedy won re-election to the Senate in 1958 by close to 900,000 votes, the biggest plurality in Massachusetts history. Kennedy's reputation as a prime vote getter-presumably on a national scale-was correspondingly enhanced. And so, in late February 1959, Jack Kennedy called a special presidential strategy session at his father's Palm Beach home. Present were Brothers Bobby and Teddy Kennedy, Brothers-in-Law Sarge Shriver and Steve Smith, Adviser Ted Sorensen-and Larry O'Brien...
...been prepared for his runaway popularity. He swept 99% of the African vote. And even in the upper roll, the Asian voters clearly decided to back a winner. Enough of them switched from the United Federalists to enable Banda to capture three of the eight seats at stake...
...King Edgar, with characteristic Christian zeal, decreed that suicides should be denied the rites of the church for violating the Sixth Commandment. Custom, later elevated to law, demanded desecration of the corpse. Until well into the 19th century. British suicides were buried at night, at crossroads, with a stake driven through their bodies. All property of suicides was forfeit to the Crown. By 1900 most of these medieval monstrosities had been repealed. But attempted suicide was still a crime punishable by fine or imprisonment up to two years. And the successful suicide was still denied church rites if he took...
Such a horse is hard to find. Occasionally, the auctioneer knocks down a real bargain: Sherluck, winner of this year's $148,650 Belmont Stakes, sold as a yearling at Saratoga in 1959 for $10,500. At the same sale, fleet-footed Globemaster, best U.S. three-year-old, was purchased by Pittsburgh Coalman Leonard Sasso for $80,000, has repaid Sasso with $300.000 in prize money. With a few such exceptions, buying yearlings-which are a year away from any track-is a risky proposition. Training injuries and illness are common among thoroughbreds, and even a well-blooded yearling...
...sent in batches of 50 to 150,000 doctors, to be put in waiting rooms. Though the King-Anderson bill forbids Government abridgment of the patient's free choice of his doctor, the pamphlets, going on the first-step-to-socialism hypothesis, cry: "Your freedom is at stake!" A.M.A. commercials on more than a dozen radio stations have quoted a housewife ("When I think how good it is to choose your own doctor, I can't bear the thought of socialized medicine"), a druggist and a doctor denouncing the bill and urging listeners to "write your Congressman-tell...