Word: three-term
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...political moment an American woman has ever faced. Not only was her vice-presidential candidacy in jeopardy, but so, in a fashion, was much that she portended for women and their political hopes. The Republicans had tossed out the question again and again since her nomination: How could a three-term Congresswoman from Queens be expected to stand up to the rigors of national office? Now the whole country wondered: Could Geraldine Ferraro take the heat...
Five years later, in October 1983, in a bellwether article on the idea of a woman Vice President as "the logical next step," TIME suggested that Ferraro, by then a three-term Congresswoman, "would bring an ethnic and urban balance" to the campaigns of several of the then presidential contenders...
...convention victory has given three-term representative Shannon--until now little known outside his fifth district in Middlesex County--valuable statewide exposure, but it is now up to him to capitalize on the opportunity...
...Shannon aide, however, said that the campaign does use poll results to target demographic and geographic groups where the three-term congressman is strongest...
...Geraldine Ferraro, 48. A three-term Queens, N.Y., Congresswoman, she is secretary of the House Democratic caucus. She would bring an ethnic and urban balance to, for example, a Glenn candidacy. Says she: "I am from Archie Bunker's district, but Edith elected...