Word: walkaways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...upon. For another, they would probably dangle before Dubček a hard-currency loan of about $400 million that he needs for economic modernization. The Soviets might even revive demands that Russian troops be stationed on Czechoslovak soil, hoping that such a garrison could permanently discourage a Prague walkaway from the Communist alliance. Dubček might agree to admit token Soviet units to mollify Moscow...
Even in yesterday's 9-1 romp over hapless Brandeis, few Harvard batsmen fattened their averages. The 13 bases on balls given up by Brandeis pitching made the game an easy walkaway...
...play it impeccably in any style under any circumstances, whether it is a love song to Rinso White or a complex passage in a Paganini concerto. When the Philharmonic asked him to audition last winter, he breezed through every obscure score that Bernstein thrust upon him, won in a walkaway over 40 aspirants...
...princely sum in Filipino politics, to swamp the country with a deluge of political pamphlets, placards, and tear-jerking biographical movies. But last week, as 8,000,000 Filipinos went to the polls, the election turned out to be not close at all. Marcos won in a walkaway, with a margin of more than 630,000 votes...
...Warren Hearnes, 41, Missouri's Dem-ocratic candidate, scorned his G.O.P. rival Ethan Allen Hitchcock Shepley, 68. Said Hearnes: "He has only one chance to win, and that's if Goldwater is a sensation." Hearnes was right, won in a walkaway over Shepley, former chancellor of St. Louis' prestigious Washington University and the strongest candidate fielded by the G.O.P. in more than a decade. The Governor-elect is a West Point graduate who served ten years in the state legislature and the past four as secretary of state. > Republican John Chafee, 42, won in Rhode Island...