Word: although
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...started with shyness; perhaps it was a developed system of coordination. In any event that . . .The work of Crew Manager was infinitely time assuming. Most of my afternoons in college were one of the boat houses, either Newell or Weld. The spring season, being out of doors, was delightful although manager had to be nimble to avoid being pushed into water by one of the shells as it was carried to and the boat house. One time I was not fast enough and I down in the Charles River, with all my clothes on in the space between the float...
Then, around 1 a.m., Nixon votes began to pour in. Although this influx was felt more in raw popular vote than in the electoral college, it nonetheless made things too close for Kennedy to claim a victory. By one count, Kennedy hovered a delicious one electoral vote away from victory for something like two hours. NBC gave California and the decision to Kennedy at 7:19 a.m., but Nixon continued to cut into Kennedy's popular-vote edge. Figures late Wednesday night showed that Kennedy's lead had dropped to approximately 320,000 out of more than 65 million votes...
...Although the team did "pretty much the same this year as last year," Love pointed out that it is difficult to predict prospects for the spring season. In the fall he was more concerned with improving each individual's form than in putting together a winning boat, Love explained. The crews in the race, he continued, contained a "pretty even distribution of wealth," and no one boat was expected...
...Although Senator Kennedy has won the election, he has not received the kind of support that most liberals were hoping for. His narrow margin in the popular vote did not amount to a strong national mandate for progressive legislation, and the phenomenal number of split ballots indicates that more and more voters tend to differentiate between national and local concerns...
...campaign of Joseph P. Ward for Governor and Edward F. McLaughlin for Lieuten ant-Governor was not a festive place: the posters were rumpled, the population was reduced to a few somnolent cigar smokers, and the carton on the front desk was full of lapelless Ward buttons--although a worker remarked that they'd run out of Kennedy buttons several days ago. "I think we've got a Kennedy hat left around here somewhere," she said...