Word: unseats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crews that the Crimson will face in next Saturday's Eastern Sprint competition, that confidence destroys any hopes to unseat the reigning sprint champions...
Strange are the things a candidate will stomach to win a few votes. Consider the fortitude of Roman ("Pooch") Pucinski, the Democratic Illinois Congressman who is waging an uphill battle to unseat first-term Republican Senator Charles Percy...
...when flamboyant Anti-Corruption Crusader Ramón Magsaysay was killed in a 1957 plane crash. Though Garcia had pledged an "all-out war" against graft, during his administration there were nearly 30,000 recorded cases of corruption in the Philippines-a fact used by Diosclado Macapagal to help unseat Garcia in the 1961 elections...
FORMER Congressman Allard K. Lowenstein was defeated in his Long Island House race last November, but he is not an idle man. For the second time in four years, he is working to unseat an incumbent President...
...congressional delegation. Governor Ronald Reagan spent a minimum of $2,400,000 trying to increase his 1966 margin and carry Senator George Murphy in on his coattails. Murphy lost, but spent $1,500,000 of his own war chest trying. It took John Tunney $1,700,000 to unseat Murphy, while the unsuccessful Democratic gubernatorial nominee, Jess Unruh, was financed with $1,100,000. Candidates vying for California's 38 House seats spent $5,300,000 in both primaries and the general election...