Word: unseats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rockefeller nonetheless has maintained a healthy lead. Though unsuccessful in his bid to unseat Governor Orval Faubus two years ago, Rockefeller got nearly 44% of the vote. Since then, he has built a Republican organization in almost every corner of the state, and has never stopped campaigning...
...Chicago, the Daily News endorsed Republican Charles Percy's bid to unseat Democratic Senator Paul Douglas, who is running for his fourth term. Douglas got the support of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch...
...Afraid, Afraid!" Though Johnson dislikes New York and recoils from its politics, he nonetheless flew in to stump for Democratic Challenger Frank O'Connor, whose campaign to unseat Governor Nelson Rockefeller is in trouble. The President, who was criticized last year for withholding support for New York City's Democratic mayoral candidate until the last moment, realized that if he stayed away this time and O'Connor and other Democratic candidates lost, the White House would be blamed. Worse yet perhaps, if O'Connor won, much of the credit would go to Senator Robert Kennedy...
Addressing a Saturday night rally of campaign workers, the candidate could not resist a word of praise for his daughter. "Valerie," he said, "is my best precinct worker." Charles Harting Percy was not simply indulging his paternal pride. In his hard-hitting campaign to unseat Illinois' three-term Democratic Senator Paul Douglas, 74, comely, honey-haired Valerie Percy, 21, a June graduate of Cornell, proved one of Chuck Percy's doughtiest aides. With sunny enthusiasm that made the task seem effortless, she recruited and coordinated hundreds of youthful Percy-for-Senator volunteers, helped set up 22 campaign centers...
Partially because she is not yet widely known, no one gives Colonel Briggs much of a chance to unseat Claiborne Pell. Still, some pretty unusual things have happened to Ruth Briggs in her career-and could happen again. Among the first WACs to be sent overseas, she quickly found herself in charge of a packed lifeboat after her ship was torpedoed in the Mediterranean-and the senior British officer in the lifeboat became seasick. "Being a Rhode Islander," she explains, "I've been around small boats all my life...