Word: trailingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bribe. In a Wallace-like ploy, his wife is running for the east Texas seat from which he is retiring after serving ten terms. Her opponents charge that Dowdy is abusing his franking privilege by sending out campaign literature for his wife. Even while on the campaign trail, she is continuing to collect the $22,500 salary she receives as a clerk in Dowdy's congressional office...
...said Senator George McGovern as he officially hit the campaign trail 15 long months ago-and all but disappeared into the political wilderness. As the earliest declared candidate for the presidential nomination in recent memory, he had a plan: challenge Edmund Muskie before he built up an insurmountable lead, go all out to make a credible showing in the New Hampshire primary, and then, gathering momentum, overtake the field in Wisconsin. Back then, his strategy seemed dreamy, if not downright doomed. Few political leaders took his candidacy seriously, dismissing him as a self-appointed "conscience of the party...
...hits the comeback trail and takes up with a backpack bohemian (Christina Ferrare) who crafts peace emblems out of licorice whips and plies him with soybeans "for high protein." Whether spurred by love or the soybeans, J.W. works himself up to No. 2 rodeo rider in the nation...
Nader was abruptly transformed into a national celebrity quite by mischance. After Unsafe at Any Speed, G.M. foolishly set detectives on the trail of its obscure critic. When a Senate subcommittee aired this Goliath v. David melodrama, Nader became a hero of just about everybody who feels oppressed by a formless, corporate "they...
...more parents who attended the weekend. Although the weekend committee scheduled a wide variety of events, most groups spent a good deal of time on their own as well. Parents went scouting everywhere from the Hasty Pudding to Harvard Yard, from Pier Four to the Freedom Trail. They saw the rooms where we live, the classes we attend; some of the places we spend our lives. As my mother left she said, "Well I feel I know more about you now, not more about Harvard, but more about...