Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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But this was heavy stuff indeed compared to Keith, who stated early in the campaign that a congressman shouldn't have to an opinion on everything, and his primary opponent, State Senator William D. Weeks, whose principle achievement in a six-year legislative career was sponsoring a bill making cranberry...
1970 may have been a good year for the Democratic Party, Richard Nixon to the contrary notwithstanding, but it was discouraging for those who hoped to substantially change the temper of Congress. But even in losing, candidates who had been involved in the McCarthy campaign, such as Studds and Duffey...
Duffey, Studds and a lot of other people lost last month for a variety of reasons, not all to do with the war or campus radicals or Spiro Agnew. Just maybe this year's setbacks will provide valuable lessons for 1972. At any rate, there is an election in two...
"The trouble with you kids," said the wife of a New Bedford politician well-acquainted with losing and winning, "is that if you lose once, you give up and quit. What do you ever expect to accomplish?"
The Harvard track team is an underdog in a meet against Army today at West Point. The Crimson, which has been bothered by injuries, faces its toughest opponent of the year.