Word: tiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...retrospect, political analysts found it hard to imagine what Ford or any other Republican could have done to stem the Democratic tide. Said Pollster Daniel Yankelovich: "If the issue had been just the economy or just Watergate, there would not have been the same outcome. But at some level of consciousness, the people put the two together. The result was clear-cut anger and blame. They zeroed in on the Nixon-related Republicans, not conservative Democrats or liberal Republicans." In large measure, the reaction sprang from the electorate's strong trend toward populism and moral indignation, as limned in TIME...
...tide of conservatism still runs strong. Fifty-three percent of those polled-up slightly from the previous surveys-either called themselves conservatives or held conservative views for the most part...
...scientific study determined that if the accident occurred at about 11:30 p.m., as Kennedy's time frame indicates, the tide at the bridge would have been slightly less than one knot, far weaker than the torrent that Kennedy claimed swept him away from the car. Had the accident taken place an hour later, as indicated by a deputy sheriff who saw a car like Kennedy's on Dike Road at 12:45 a.m., the tide would have been about 1.3 knots...
...just as at Dartmouth, a cool Holt refused to let the tide change. Holt directed Harvard 67 yards for a touch-down, hitting tight end Curtin with a pass in the endzone. That made the score 26-17 Harvard, but with the way Princeton was moving, it looked as though the Crimson would need a lot more than that to ensure the victory...
Governor Sargent, in his concession speech, attributed his defeat to "the price of hamburg," and "a national tide which was running against virtually every Republican...