Word: winner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suspicion over the election. Yet there have been so many surprises in Campaign '76 that next week could bring some new blunder or fresh disclosure, tossing the contest once again topsy-turvy. No doubt Candidate Ford has been badly set back, but, given the nature of this election, the winner could turn out to be the man who makes the second-to-last goof...
...million people saw at least part of the debate, v. 85 million for the first encounter. Because of Carter's style-an obviously nimble mind and a more relaxed, spontaneous delivery than Ford's-he was generally judged, even by some Administration insiders, to be a narrow winner over Ford, who usually appeared self-confident but occasionally sounded tense and irritable. At times Ford looked like an angry lineman glaring at a linebacker whom he was about to obliterate, though he never quite succeeded...
Last week's hurricane successfully transformed today's Crimson-Big Green confrontation today from a battle of unbeatens into a struggle for survival. While the winner of the New Hampshire war moves into the driver's seat in the Ivy title express, the loser gets shuffled to the back of the bus with no immediate hope of getting out first...
HARVARD at DARTMOUTH: There's absolutely no way in the world that there won't be a winner. And it's going to be the Crimson. Harvard 36, Dartmouth...
Yankee Year. Meanwhile, back in the stands, where score cards, not legal briefs, are what matter, baseball was bigger than ever. Attendance was up 5% despite the absence of rousing pennant races. Happiness, as usual, was a warm winner. The World Champion Reds rolled methodically through their season, clinching their fifth division title in seven years. For the Reds, titles are so routine, and the dressing room after ward was so subdued, that Presider Robert Howsam had to splash champagne himself. Said he: "Some of these guys are acting too dignified...