Word: ward
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...farm price supports and down- grade the Rural Electrification Administration helped lead to his sorry showing in the rural Midwest. Johnson almost wiped out the big G.O.P. margins traditional in downstate Illinois. He carried some rural areas of Wisconsin by an unprecedented 60%. He took North Dakota's Ward County- which had gone to Nixon in 1960-by a margin of 2 to 1. At the same time, Johnson also knocked down the normal Republican margins in Midwest suburban areas, even carried Missouri's suburban St. Louis County. In the Rocky Mountain states and the Far West...
...Ward 6, precinct 3 (The Yard, Claverly, and all Houses except Dunster): New Fire House, Broadway and Quincy St. Ward 6, precinct 4 (Dunster House): Corporal Burns Playground, Banks St. Ward 7, precincts 1 and 2 (graduate dorms): Agassiz School, Oxford and Sacramento Streets. Ward 7, precincts 4 and 5 (Radcliffe Quad and most off-campus houses): Peabody School, Linnaean and Avon Streets. Ward 8, precinct 5 (Coggeshall): Harvard-Epworth Methodist Church, Mass. Ave. Polls will be open from...
Bellotti himself had balanced rather neatly between competing factions in the years of his rise to power first as a manager for the disreputable Joe Ward in 1960, then steering a pretty neutral course in 1962 between Kennedy and McCormack, and finally gathering together all the losers in the past several elections in his own bid for the gubernatorial nomination. He assiduously avoided being connected with any particular issue or cause, especially capital punishment, which had turned out to be a Peabody albatross...
...fact is that ever since John Kennedy began to run for office, the quality of the state's officers has been improving. The crudity of political appeals has been reduced, and it is significant that the comeback try in 1962 of Francis "Sweepstakes" Kelley, an old-guard ward heeler Democrat running for Attorney General was defeated decisively by Edward Brooke, a Republican. Brooke, who has now joined that select circle of the Commonwealth's politicians who are regarded as incorruptible, is regarded as a pretty good bet for reelection despite the Johnson landslide...
...speed, the wings will angle back ward at 72.5°, turning the airplane into a sharp, pointed arrowhead. The problem of moving the wings quickly and surely under the enormous air pressures of high speed was not easy, but it seems to have been licked...