Word: sized
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...issues. I had some loose ends to tie up. and I'm sure Senator Kennedy did too. I thought there was more clash in this." As they parted, the two gossiped about their road campaigns and what Nixon called "crowds-manship," i.e., rival claims as to the size of their respective audiences. "Let's see," said Nixon next, "when do we meet again?" Replied Kennedy coolly: "Next week, and I'll give you my best." (But they will meet only electronically; Nixon will be in Los Angeles, and Kennedy will be in Manhattan...
Delaware. Political touts size up the race between Incumbent J. Allen Frear Jr., conservative Democrat, and Governor Caleb Boggs, moderate Republican, as fifty-fifty, although a successful Democratic registration drive has the G.O.P. worried...
...unions had registered their stands and committed their huge bloc votes last summer. When the conference chairman banged his opening gavel in the big Scarborough auditorium, only the delegates representing the various constituency parties remained free to swing their votes-and the only question left undecided was the size of Hugh Gaitskell's defeat. Burly Frank Cousins, leftist boss of the giant Transport and General Workers Union, was driving for a million-vote majority for a neutralist policy. Gaitskell, backed by the party's 254 M.P.s was fighting not only for his defense policy but his party leadership...
...Clark Kerr, president of the mammoth, seven-campus* University of California (47,895 students), the largest college complex in the U.S. Few states are growing faster than California: whether by birth or by migration, the population increases by one a minute. Each year California's growth matches the size of San Diego. Each day it needs one new school. Already it has the nation's biggest public school system (3,300,000). Already it has the nation's highest number of Collegians (234,000 fulltime), and 80% of them are on public campuses...
Expected to sneak in front of Dunster for second place honors is Kirkland, the only single wing club of the nine. In addition to good size, the Deacons have that inextinguishable House spirit which has given them the Straus Trophy the last four years, and is now clamoring for the dusty mantelpiece in Dunster's dining hall. (The Straus Trophy is awarded each year to the House with the best over-all record in inter-House athletic competition...