Word: winner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...yesterday, in 19 of 22 wards, White won big, piling up spreads as large as 55 percent in one Roxbury ward. For the first time in his career he carried South Boston, which has never in recent years backed a winner...
Picking a winner as prexy...
Election workers begin by sorting the ballots by first choice vote. If any candidate receives over a certain quota of first choice votes (set by tradition at ten per cent of the total vote), he is automatically declared a winner. Two years ago, only one candidate, Walter Sullivan, managed this feat on the first round...
...Bache Halsey Stuart Shields, blames the suicides on the psychology of the era. "Then people seemed to be more affected by the loss of money than they are today. When people lose a lot of money now, they just plan on how they are going to make a winner somewhere down the road. The people who lost then appeared despondent. They didn't seem to be in a frame of mind in which they could possibly make a comeback...
Mike Flanagan (23-9) was beaten 7-1 in the fifth game, three-time Cy Young Winner Jim Palmer lost 4-0 in the sixth, and Scott McGregor (13-6) was beaten in the final game 4-1. Over that span, Baltimore managed 17 hits, but seldom at the right time. The Orioles had a chance to salvage the Series in the last game when they loaded the bases in the eighth inning; not a run scored...