Word: winner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hate to say it but I'm voting for Carter." That off his chest, he walked out. Later Steve said, "If we win, I'll be happy for my father. If we lose, I get my father back again. Either way, the family will be a winner...
...they awaited the results, both candidates faced one certainty. Whoever won would have a formidable opposition leader to contend with. Indeed, with the likelihood of a reduced margin of seats in the Bundestag dividing winner and loser, it seemed possible that neither Kohl nor Schmidt would be able to stay in power for a full four-year term...
Those are the match-ups, and to be truthful, the statistics don't mean much in the five-game series which starts tonight. Since I've mentioned Sports Illustrated, I might as well use that publication to predict the winner. The Reds, you see, have made five SI covers in the last year (Johnny Bench twice, Pete Rose, Joe Morgan and now Foster), and the Phils have made it just once, with Schmidt. The Reds, obviously, will get the ol' Si jinx...
Such poison! In 1959, the Yankee's third place finish inspired a hater to compose lovely verse. It was entitled, "To an ex-American League pennant winner...
...figures were hardly decisive, but an early nationwide sampling of opinion gave a slight edge to Ford. Telephoning 1,065 voters, the Associated Press found 34.4% thought he had won, 31.8% considered Carter the winner and 33.8% either figured it a tie or had no opinion. (Statistically, this sample carries a possible error of 2.9%.) A Louis Harris/ABC News poll taken the day after the debate also showed that viewers, by a narrow margin, thought Ford had won. Also, according to Harris, Carter had led Ford 52%-39% before the debate, but slipped to a 50%-41% margin afterward...