Word: among
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conservatives were lined up solidly behind the bill, Halleck found that some 20 of his own Republicans, all from industrial areas, were prepared to go over the hill, vote for one of the weaker bills. Moreover, the trend was against Halleck: his rasping, hard-driving methods had caused resentment among the G.O.P. rank and file, and he was in danger of losing even more Republicans...
Pollster George Gallup, in a canvass taken since Nixon's return from Russia and Poland, reported that Nixon, among both Republican and independent voters, had significantly increased his margin over Rockefeller in the past month...
Adding a surprising tidbit to the intraparty race was a mailing poll conducted by Jet Magazine among 200 of the G.O.P.'s leading Negroes, who might be expected to back Rocky because of good works done over the years by family philanthropies. But Nixon took 81.7% to Rockefeller...
According to the Turkish police, the four sergeants among them had bought about $15,000 worth of lire at black-market rates, i.e., at 11 or 12 to the dollar instead of at the official 9 to the dollar. For this, Izmir's public prosecutor last week demanded up to 25 years for McCuistion and lesser prison sentences for the other three...
...desert settlement of Hammoudia, some 25 miles down the sand track from Reggan in the southwest French Sahara, is the front gate of a huge military reserve where 4,500 French technicians and troops work among the intricate gadgets of the Atomic Age. Near by are underground workshops, rows of air-conditioned huts, and an airstrip fit for jets. To the south is the emptiness of the Tanezrouft-the "thirst country" of the central Sahara -where France will most likely test its late starter in the atomic race: a model T bomb too big for their airplanes and too crude...