Word: winner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Esposito's goal proved to be the game-winner, and was scored while teammate Dave Forbes was out on a penalty...
With the campaign over, correspondents had sharply etched memories of its familiar frenzy. For the New York Bureau's Don Sider, there was an intense last-day-of-campaign conversation with Gubernatorial Winner Hugh Carey, conducted-facing backward-from the bouncing jump seat of Carey's limousine. Sider fought down mounting car sickness and emerged in Queens with richly detailed notes on Carey's political philosophy. Boston Bureau Chief Sandra Burton recalls spending "several of the most exhausting days" of her career trailing tireless Ella Grasso, Connecticut Governor-elect. Now Burton found herself in Hartford hauling bags...
...same time, he was acceptable to the city's liberals, the imperial custodians of party affairs. Though he served Brooklyn's most conservative district, he maintained a relatively liberal voting record. Besides, after more defeats than they cared to remember, the liberals were hungry for a winner...
...1960s, presidential politicking has been largely for the enjoyment of the Presidents. They get to use their airplanes and helicopters more than ever. They love those machines and the sense of authority they bring. They escape the office. At 37,000 ft. or out in the unruffled spaces of Winner, S. Dak., the world is blissfully manageable. Adulation from masses of people actually changes their psyche. President-watchers have seen the cheeks of Johnson and Nixon tone from gray to pink as the strains of Hail to the Chief and the cheers of the crowds washed over them...
...second try, and once again Eliot came through, this time Tony Lund was the scorer. Both squads made their third shots count, but Radcliffe missed its fourth and so lost the penalty contest 3-1 and the contest 2-1. Tony Starr tallied what proved to be the game-winner for Eliot, which finished the season...