Word: woodrow
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Nonetheless, Wayne Woodrow Hayes, 55, is still worrying-this time about the disdain of youths for instructional discipline. Of the 22 starters on O.S.U.'s two platoons, eleven are sophomores, and Rex Kern, 19, for instance, has yet to learn that quarterbacks should nurture a concern for physical survival. Kern bulls his way head-on into defending behemoths just to see how many he can topple over. Injuries kept Kern from finishing six games this season-but Woody's anger was tempered by the 500 yds. Kern gained rushing...
...plurality amounted to nearly three times the 118,574-vote figure by which John Kennedy defeated him eight years ago. Yet with 31,085,267 popular votes to Humphrey's 30,760,301, Nixon still claimed merely 43.5% of the electorate's approval - the lowest percentage since Woodrow Wilson, battling both Republican William Howard Taft and Bull Mooser Teddy Roosevelt, won with 41.9% of the vote...
...Marcus Morton was elected Governor of Massachusetts by one vote out of 102,066. In the 1916 presidential election, Charles Evans Hughes seemed a certain winner until returns from California two days later gave Woodrow Wilson the state by some 4,000 votes out of the nearly 1,000,000 cast. Less than one vote per precinct could have swung the election to Hughes. In 1960, John Kennedy beat Nixon by only 112,803 popular votes out of 68.8 million. Less than one vote per precinct would have given Nixon a popular victory...
Ironically it was the Ford Foundation which caused large cutbacks in other available fellowships. Last fall the Foundation refused to renew its annual $5 million grant to the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Fund, which was dependent on Ford for 95 per cent of its revenue...
...furled umbrella and powerful cigar are familiar to every newsman in Washington. He is a regular participant in the lunchtime poker-dice games at the bar of the Metropolitan Club. His counsel has been sought-or pointedly ignored-by every President since William Howard Taft. Woodrow Wilson often talked out his problems with him during the Paris peace talks that ended World War I.F.D.R. once regarded him as a "Hoover agent," twice tried unsuccessfully to get him fired. Both Jack and Bobby Kennedy submitted the manuscripts of their first books to him for critical comment. To his secretary, Laura Waltz...