Word: majority
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...York (45): "We're in trouble," grumbles a New York Republican chieftain. New York City's historically Democratic minority groups will deliver a whopping Kennedy majority. The New York Daily News poll, which has been in the money in every major election since 1948, reads it Kennedy by 56% to 44%. KENNEDY...
...Democrats are hotly courting them. Scripps-Howard polls gave Nixon only 46% of the straws in Cincinnati-which went 62½% for Ike in 1956. The G.O.P. counts on carrying the farm counties, along with Dayton and Columbus. The rising Democratic tide in Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) and other major industrial areas (in Youngstown, 30,000 of the 55,000 steelworkers are unemployed) should easily tip the balance. KENNEDY...
Whatever happened, Kennedy was a changed man on his return to the Senate in May 1955. He took his place as a leader among the Northern Democrats; his mind, as sharply honed as a barber's razor, turned to every major project on the agenda, and his eyes fastened on the White House. When Presidential Nominee Adlai Stevenson threw open the 1956 Democratic Convention for vice-presidential nominations, Kennedy plunged into a trial run. To his surprise, he came within a thin 38^ votes of defeating Tennessee's Estes Kefauver-corralling, along the way, a strong voting strength...
...someone once put it, the distinction between the minor and major poet is largely a matter of size: the greater the poet, the bigger his world. By this standard, France's Saint-John Perse was a giant from the beginning, for he wrote of the oceans, the deserts, the globe, and of a timeless Man. His form was neither verse nor prose, and to many the vivid imagery was enigmatic, possibly cryptic, as in Seamarks...
Even those expressing approval of both candidates seemed detached from their favorite. Kennedy won approval for his intelligence, vigor, and overall "polish," but when asked to state their major reason for preferring the Senator, most voters either shrugged or said "I'm a Democrat." Nixon fans reacted similarly. While citing the Vice-President's experience and maturity as the most compelling factor affecting their vote, at least half of the voters preferring Nixon spoke more favorably about the Republican and unfavorably about the Democratic Party than they did about their own candidate...