Word: garnered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gone over the question every which way with L.B.J., until he got irritated and stormed that he would not do the Kennedy family's bidding. He declared that the vice presidency was a worthless job compared with being Senate leader, related the sad tenure of "Cactus Jack" Garner, who had called the office nothing more than a "pitcher of warm spit," and said Speaker Sam Rayburn had told him to stay far away from it. If he could not be President, he would stay in the Senate, Johnson had told me with such rage and finality -- his nose an inch...
...Jackson has carefully refrained from putting himself on the line. He has proven that among Democratic candidates, virtually all Black voters prefer him. As it stands now, he regularly can be counted on to attract virtually all of the Black vote in the Democratic primaries, and to garner about 30 percent, at the most, of the total popular vote during the quest for the nomination...
...Neill is the first Harvard fencer to garner All-Ivy status for four consecutive seasons, and only the fifth fencer in Ivy League history...
...There's no doubt about it that the fellowships advising system at Harvard is just wonderful," says Jonathan L. Feng '88, who was one of five Harvard students to garner a Marshall. Many fellowship winners praise OCS and fellowships tutors in the houses for helping them with their applications and leading them through mock interviews...
With Joslin's first-team All-Ivy selection in women's lacrosse, the Dedham native is the only Harvard athlete this year to earn first-team All-Ivy in three sports. She is also the first Ivy League woman to garner kudos in three unrelated sports...