Word: winner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...refreshingly avoided any whiff of pre-broadcast self-righteousness. NBC and actual returns be damned: at 8 p.m. EST, CBS declared Reagan the winner. ABC followed suit at 8:13; NBC at 8:31. Phew. All that holding back...
...fair to Brokaw, how else could one describe the evening's outcome? (Those readers who suggested "this victory" are on the right track.) Brokaw also fell into the habit of asking commentator John Chancellor for his "immediate thoughts" on this or that. After NBC projected Reagan the winner, Chancellor offered this immediate thought: "Just that there's a hunger in America for a president who serves eight years." On at least one occasion, Brokaw harkened back to former NBC newsman David Brinkley, now with ABC News. In 1980, Brinkley surveyed the giant NBC map--colored Reagan blue--and labelled...
Corbin, who recruited Pascucci from Beverly High School in nearby Beverly, Mass, says the Dartmouth talk, "was done in a professional way,' and calls the three year letterman "a winner kind of kid who desires to succeed...
...they shouted when Mass. Gov. Michael S. Dukakis called on Democrats to "accept the verdict" and "rally behind the winner...
Early returns indicating a Mondale victory in Massachusetts lifted their spirits, but the mood soured when television networks later projected Reagan the local winner...