Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Richard Nixon's thin margin of popular votes widened only slightly as late returns and absentee ballots were totted up last week. He might console himself that his 324,966 plurality amounted to nearly three times the 118,574-vote figure by which John Kennedy defeated him eight years ago. Yet with 31,085,267 popular votes to Humphrey's 30,760,301, Nixon still claimed merely 43.5% of the electorate's approval - the lowest percentage since Woodrow Wilson, battling both Republican William Howard Taft and Bull Mooser Teddy Roosevelt, won with 41.9% of the vote...
...days. Last week it became obvious that, in one of 1968's major upsets, 36-year-old Portland Attorney Robert W. Packwood had dislodged Democrat Wayne Morse, 68, from the Senate seat that he has occupied for 24 years. At week's end, Packwood held a thin 3,554 margin over Morse out of 814,418 votes cast. Morse will demand a recount. Unless it reverses the verdict, however, the brilliantly erratic Democrat-and onetime Republican-will retire to raise cattle on his Willamette Valley farm...
Perhaps this was not the unmistakable signal to Moscow requested by British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart, but as diplomatic warnings go, it was strong language. "Foreign ministers are not village idiots," a top U.S. official explained. "They know we're not talking into thin air. What we're saying is watch...
...bearings-flat disks made of plastic-fabric materials. When air is pumped into the disks, they assume a doughnut shape, raising the platform and its heavy load from 1 to 3 in. As the bearings become inflated, air escaping through perforations in the doughnut seeps underneath it. That thin film of escaping air suspends platform and plane above the concrete surface...
...American theater were about to come of age, and it had become obvious that the make-believe of drama was where O'Neill most truly engaged life. "Resentful against God, resentful against family, resentful, resentful," as a Harvard classmate described him, he crossed in the right direction the thin line that separates self-pity from pity and hate from love, making a tentative peace with his family if not with...