Word: winning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...colt by Turn To out of Royal Something. I named it Do Something. Either my selection never got to Mr. Chenery or else his taste is bad. He named the damn horse Sir Gaylord. Well, you can see the kind of luck I have. Sir Gaylord went on to win everything in sight. If Mr. Chenery had listened to me, I'd have been naming race horses right and left by now. I've never forgiven Mr. Chenery for this, so I practice on his horses all the time. He has one now called Cicada's Pride...
...Chief Justice was also worried, according to friends, that Richard Nixon, a man he heartily dislikes, would be elected President in November and fill the spot with a conservative.* Several Republican Senators, similarly convinced that Nixon would win in the fall, insisted that Johnson permit the next President to pick his own Chief Justice. But Johnson has tradition firmly on his side-John Adams appointed John Marshall Chief Justice a month before leaving office-and he will almost certainly ignore their demand. Immediate speculation as to his choice centered on two Associate Justices: Abe Fortas, Johnson's close friend...
Alaska (22): Humphrey is likely to win all 22 under Alaska's unit rule...
...Against all odds, McCarthy goes on to win the nomination himself, then drafts Humphrey as his running mate (experience counts). To circumvent the constitutional problem raised by having two candidates from the same state, Team Player Humphrey relocates to an apartment over the family drugstore in Huron...
...dilapidated urinals were plainly in view, Centrist Leader Jacques Duhamel drew cheers by asking: "Wouldn't it be better to spend money on schools rather than on the illusionary force de frappe?" In an ironical turnabout, the Communists attacked the Gaullists for their no-holds-barred attempt to win an all-out majority in the National Assembly. "Unlike the Gaullist party," chided Party Chairman Waldeck Rochet, "the Communists do not want power alone, but only to have their rightful place in a government of democratic parties...