Word: thinnests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Murphy's victory last week over short-term Incumbent Democrat Pierre Salinger was a classic study in how to handle the California electorate. Democrats there outnumber Republicans 3 to 2. To rate even the thinnest chance of winning, Murphy not only had to hold onto all factions of the G.O.P., from rabid-right kooks to solid moderates, he also had to pick up some 20% of Democratic and Independent votes...
Instead of savage young malcontents, the American program is largely staffed with familiar commercial personalities like Elliot Reid and Henry Morgan flinging around nightclub material that would be tossed out of the thinnest of topical revues...
...Tate, a party plodder who inherited the office last year when Crusading Liberal Richardson Dilworth resigned to run unsuccessfully for Governor, would be in trouble with whites for his acquiescence to demands from a notably militant grouping of Negro organizations. As it turned out, Tate won-but by the thinnest edge the Democrats had sweated in twelve years of power...
...feet were twisted into one another, and the toenails looked like they hadn't been out for months, like a hawk's She was the thinnest person I had ever seen: she looked like these pictures from the concentration camps, except that her body was all by itself, and it was green. The skin just flopped ever her bones like the stuff you pick off the top of cocoa with your spoon...
...visit to Frondizi. As the wires hummed between Buenos Aires and Washington, McClintock let it be known that Argentina could expect no aid from the U.S. if the military imposed a new dictatorship on Argentina. "The objective," as one State Department officer put it, "is to preserve even the thinnest skin over this skeleton of legalism rather than see it destroyed and the military rule...