Word: attacks
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...House aides argue that there was little choice, that Republicans had no tactical choice but to avoid the economic problem and therefore had to put the Democrats on the defensive over the social issue. Yet the same advisers admit that it is difficult to single out elections where this attack proved crucial. Two Senate victories that the Republicans picked up almost casually ?Glenn Beall's in Maryland and Lowell Weicker's in Connecticut?turned on other factors. Weicker ran against two opponents, Democratic Incumbent Thomas Dodd. who campaigned as an independent after failing to win renomination. and Joseph Duffey...
...suburban voters, and by cutting heavily into union halls that were once the exclusive domain of the Democrats. In New York, jobs and Viet Nam were not the pre-eminent concerns; the social issue was. Rockefeller benefited similarly; he had moved markedly to the right, and steadily refused to attack Buckley on Goodell's behalf. Rocky rolled up the biggest plurality of his career in winning an unprecedented fourth four-year term...
...Political terrorism!" retorted Tunney. Indeed, it seemed that Murphy was guilty of the same miscalculation as Nixon in overplaying the stone-throwing incident. San Jose Police Chief Raymond Blackmore deflated the Republican attack a bit by arguing that the extent of the violence had been exaggerated?Santa Clara County, including San Jose, voted for Tunney. How much the backfire amounted to was academic, however. Tunney already had established himself as firm on law-and-order by urging pay raises for police and taking an occasional ride in a police cruiser. Tunney's opponent in the Democratic primary, George Brown, represented...
...soccer game, and we could barely muster an attack on their goal," Getchell said. In the second half the temperature dropped, and "the field became a quagmire," he said...
Harvard coach Bruce Munro felt that Brown's style of play led to physically contested matches. "Brown plays a hustling, aggressive type of attack," Munro said, "and their enthusiasm often leads to contact...