Word: waner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...forced to find a sacri ficial lamb. Last week the lamb was ritually slaughtered as Daley, 64, walked off with his fourth term by a margin of more than half a million votes. The mayor racked up 789,163-73% of the total ballots cast - while his opponent, John Waner, a prosperous, self-made heating contractor, tallied 272,955. Even in the Negro wards, from which the Democrats feared a strong protest vote, Daley outdrew Waner...
...lopsided outcome had been all but preordained. Waner, 52, a diligent, longtime Republican precinct captain, was little known to the public. He re mained all but unrecognized this year as he funneled $100,000 of his own money into a woefully underfunded campaign...
...Polish immigrants, Waner (ne Jan Wojnarowski) confessed at one point: "My English ain't so good. I didn't learn it until I was nine." Waner alienated Chicago's militant civil rights groups by opposing open housing, then blundered into a vow to fire Chicago's able Police Superintendent Orlando W. Wilson, whom he labeled a "$30,000-a-year con artist...
Died. Paul ("Big Poison") Waner, 62, one of baseball's greatest hitters, a bat-boy-sized (153 Ibs.) lefthander who went for singles, not homers, and in 20 years in the majors, 15 with the Pittsburgh Pirates, sprayed out 3,152 hits for a .333 average, before retiring in 1945 to occasional coaching jobs-and a niche in the Hall of Fame; of pulmonary emphysema; in Sarasota, Fla. The Big Poison nickname was to distinguish him from his brother and fellow Pirate Lloyd ("Little Poison"), whom he outweighed...