Word: unseat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wouldn't feel much difference between '74 and last week when I ran unopposed. But I'll tell you," Smith says with a smile, "there was a hell of a difference, and it's nice to know that I have been well enough accepted that no one tried to unseat...
Graham's win came in her second attempt to unseat Toomey in the race for State Representative in the Fourth Middlesex District...
...race for Congress in the fourth district may be the only interesting race in Massachusetts this year, mostly because it's the only one that will be close. Arthur Mason, a Republican, is trying to unseat three-term Democratic Representative Robert F. Drinan in the district that extends from Brookline to Framingham and Gardner...
...that features frequent expressions of disinterest about a wide variety of issues. Tunney's bland, Eastern style--including a Kennedyesque accent--palls in comparison with his opponent's. Hayakawa has captured the electorate's imagination, but it is highly questionable if he can capture enough of their votes to unseat Runney...
When the music begins at one of his rallies, Tennessee Republican Senator Bill Brock appears to be mildly annoyed at all the noise. James Sasser, the Democrat who hopes to unseat Brock, joyfully picks up the beat by stomping his foot. When the rivals appeared recently at the Dyer County Fair, Brock shook a few hands, then disappeared, without taking a single ride, before most fairgoers were even aware he had been there. Grinning broadly, the shirtsleeved Sasser eagerly took over, leaving scarcely a hand unshaken, delivering a rip-roaring speech-and getting down on his knees to play with...