Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ebulliance as they utter the last familiar gasps of the campaign all over the city. Nobody was in at the Kennedy Headquarters on Tremont Street. "They're all down at the Boston Garden," said the elevator boy, "getting ready for the next President of the United States." And a Ward campaign manager added: "President Kennedy...
...center for the campaign of Joseph P. Ward for Governor and Edward F. McLaughlin for Lieuten ant-Governor was not a festive place: the posters were rumpled, the population was reduced to a few somnolent cigar smokers, and the carton on the front desk was full of lapelless Ward buttons--although a worker remarked that they'd run out of Kennedy buttons several days ago. "I think we've got a Kennedy hat left around here somewhere," she said...
Charley O'Brien, the man in charge, is short and brush-haired, and holds his cigarette in a clenched fist. He had not bothered to take off his trench-coat. "Ward's a shoo-in," he stated, "because Kennedy's gonna win Massachusetts by 500,000 votes for sure." He spread out a Boston Globe on one of the six empty tables in the headquarters. "Look at that--the Herald, the Globe, and the Traveler have all gone back on their accusation that Ward's name is printed heavier on the ballot...
...Annapolis, Joe Curnane, a Massachusetts undertaker who looks after Jack Kennedy's political interests in Maryland, hooked his forefingers in his vest and put the heat on 48 Tidewater ward lords for sizable campaign contributions. "It gets better every day," he said. "I'd hate to see Maryland end up in the wrong column the day after the election. Don't miss the boat, gentlemen. Don't miss the boat...
Meanwhile, the running attack--led by Bruce McIntyre, Hobie Armstrong, Larry Repsher and Jim Nelson--has been over-powering until it gets to the opponent's 10-yard line, where it stops dead. Dave Ward missed three field goals at fairly close range last Saturday. This scoring problem seems as much psychological as physical: Yovicsin appears convinced of his team's inability to score from in close, and has called for the field goal on almost every fourth down situation within kicking range...