Word: tossup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have decisive statewide effects. Just a few weeks ago, before Maryland's schools opened, Republican Governor Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin was an odds-on favorite for re-election over Democrat H.C. ("Curly") Byrd. Then came trouble in the newly desegregated schools, and by last week the race was a tossup...
...appointed him to the Senate as Bob Taft's replacement. And, in Ohio, the Lausche coattails are second to none-not even Dwight Eisenhower's, to which former Taftman George Bender has clung with might and main. As of last week, Ohio looked like a coattail tossup...
...thin varsity soccer team, depleted by sickness and injury, opens its season this afternoon against a strong but undermanned Wesleyan squad. The game, rated a tossup, begins at 2 p.m. on the Business School field...
...next four places in the league are hard to pick. It's almost a tossup between a solid scrappy Boston team, a vastly improved Washington club, the always dangerous Indians and the puzzling but threatening White...
...rest of the league is nothing at all. Cincinnati, under its new manager Birdie Tebbetts, has some promising young rookie pitchers and good power which will give them sixth place. It's a tossup between Chicago and Pittsburgh in the race for last, with Chicago winning on the basis of almost no talent...