Word: winner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nixon, by contrast, found cause for cheer in the polls. A Harris sampling asking which candidate would inspire the most confidence as President gave Nixon 40%, Humphrey 28%, Wallace 14%. Surveys by the New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor showed Nixon the easy winner, with Wallace second and Humphrey third in probable electoral votes. When he heard the tally of the latest Gallup poll (Nixon 44%, Humphrey 29%, Wallace 20%), the Republican candidate bounded to the back of his campaign plane for an ebullient chat with reporters, felt so uncharacteristically talkative that he returned twice more during...
...winnings. They had been quoting 17-to-10 odds on the St. Louis Cardinals, and the world champions were winning in a walk. They had Detroit's Tigers down, three games to one, and St. Louis' peerless pitcher Bob Gibson had humiliated Detroit's 31-game winner, Denny McLain, not once, but twice. Relaxed and confident, Gibson was ready to pitch again, if necessary, in the best-of-seven Series...
Winthrop House, last year's winner of the Strauss Cup, lost its first football game to Eliot House yesterday...
Going into the game, Detroit's Deny McLain fairly oozed confidence. "I want to humiliate the Cardinals," said Denny, whose regular-season record of 31-6 makes him the big leagues' biggest winner in 34 years. "If that's the way he feels, he'll get his chance," retorted the Cardinals' Bob Gibson, 32, whose 22 victories this season included 13 shutouts and whose earned-run average of 1.12 was the lowest ever in the National League...
Laugh-In was last season's biggest TV hit, and is already a solid Nielsen winner so far this year. But that alone would hardly be enough to draw such a motley assortment of celebrities to the show for $210 per appearance. What appeals is the program's extraordinary ambiance: it has an artful spontaneity, a kind of controlled insanity, emerging from a cascade of crazy cartoon ideas. In yet another TV season of pale copies, Laugh-In is unique. It features no swiveling chorus lines, no tuxedoed crooners. Just those quick flashes of visual and verbal comedy...