Word: unseats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...battle in the conference committee was over applying the public funding idea to senatorial and congressional races. House members, who have to run for office every other year, were particularly loath to provide ready funds for opponents seeking to unseat them. Some critics of the House bill, which provided public financing only for presidential campaigns, tagged it the Incumbents' Protection...
...Democratic side, the picture is more complicated. Loyalists of Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy insist that their favorite has emerged a winner from the resolution of Watergate. Kennedy, they argue, has the personal magnetism needed to unseat Ford in 1976. "Ford's going to run a personality campaign," says one Democratic strategist, and "I've been hearing people say that Ted's the only candidate we have with a personality strong enough to move people...
...able to unseat Daley's delegates at the Democratic Convention. A onetime aide to Illinois' former Senator Paul Douglas, Singer was schooled at Brandeis and Columbia law. He has announced his candidacy to challenge Daley in next February's mayoralty primary...
Going into the meet coach Edgar Stowel said that Harvard could come back from Cornell with some pleasant surprises. "Navy is tough but we stand a good chance to unseat Penn for the unofficial Ivy Help crown," Stowell said last week...
...passed automatically to Rocky's loyal if colorless Lieutenant Governor Malcolm Wilson, 59. It was Wilson who initially pushed Rockefeller toward the executive mansion in 1958 when, as an influential state assemblyman, he took Rocky around to various Republican leaders and trumpeted him as the man who could unseat Democrat Averell Harriman. Now it was finally Wilson's turn to step into the limelight...