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Despite the high personal stakes involved, the campaign was more of a shadowboxing match than a toe-to-toe political slugfest. Brandt campaigned as if the election were a plebiscite on his Ostpolitik, even though he knew full well that few West Germans seriously opposed it. With skillful if transparent timing, his government-aided by Moscow, which also approved his Ostpolitik and exerted pressure on East Germany to cooperate-produced an agreement with East Berlin eleven days before the vote. Just before this week's vote, Brandt promised that "if I am reelected, I will not hesitate to propose...
...showdown was staged a fortnight ago in the chandeliered Nelson Room of the Trafalgar Tavern hard by the Thames in Greenwich. The Americans had barely unpacked their darts when the wily British indulged in a bit of ye olde "putting off" (psyching your opponent). The white toe-line, they announced, would be set 7 ft. 6 in. from the board and not 8 ft. as in the U.S. U.S. Darter Jack Carr, 39, a pub owner from Hermosa Beach, Calif., responded with some putting off of his own. "We'll continue to shoot from 8 ft.," he said gallantly...
Brown tallied next as goalie Ben Brainiest missed a high cross shot which will then headed into the nets. The seventh goal like the fifth was a slicing toe kick which landed in the upper right-hand corner of the goal...
Sincerely, George McGovern. And he went on to borrow from Adlai Stevenson who borrowed from Abraham Lincoln who had been borrowed by Coca Cola: The Story of the Boy Who Stubbed His Toe in the Dark, by George McGovern. "It hurts too much too laugh...
When Weeks himself arrived at 10:50 p.m., the band broke into "When the Saints Come Marching In." Weeks told the crowd that it was toe early-to predict any election results, spent the rest of his speech thanking the crowd for their support and then introduced his wile and four children. He then retired to a downstairs seen with a scotch and water, and the crowd went back to dancing and laughing...