Word: tunneys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gore (8) aims a mighty swipe at William Brock (9). In Florida, Lawton Chiles (10) closes with William Cramer (11), toe-deep in the Gulf of Mexico. And across the water in Texas, Lloyd Bentsen (12) raises his shield against George Bush (13). Finally, out on the Coast, John Tunney (14) wields a boxing glove bludgeon against dancing George Murphy...
CALIFORNIA. Gray-haired and raspy-voiced from a successful operation for throat cancer, oldtime Hoofer George Murphy, 68, is trying to dance out of the way of a strong challenge to his bid for a second Senate term by a Democrat named Tunney. If the Tunney were Gene, a contemporary, Murphy could worry less. But it is John. 36-year-old son of the former heavyweight champion, a three-term Congressman who looks, talks and acts like a somehow unaccounted-for Kennedy brother...
CALIFORNIA: Former song and dance man George Murphy is running neck and neck with a young and vigorous liberal Democrat, Rep. John V. Tunney. It is impossible to predict anything, much less a political election, in the land of Reagans and Mansons, yet Tunney must be given the edge. He is running a strong campaign against the 68-year-old Murphy, whose campaigning is hampered by his voice problem (he has had several major operations on his throat and is only barely audible...
...Tunney has criticized President Nixon for failing to realize that a settlement of the war will have to include a "broad based government in South Vietnam." He has also called for economic and medical aid for both North and South Vietnam...
...defused as a pervasive issue. Of 35 Democrats seeking Senate seats this year, at least a dozen, including Humphrey, Jackson, Muskie, Kennedy, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Rhode Island's John Pastore, are conceded to be certain winners. In Illinois and California, Democrats Adlai Stevenson III and John Tunney are exploiting their famous names and their foes' drab records; they may well pick up Republican-held seats. In New York and Vermont, Democrats Richard Ottinger and Philip Hoff are given good chances to offset party losses elsewhere by ousting Incumbents Charles Goodell and Winston Prouty...