Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atomic Energy Authority, would mean the end of the United Nations. With unanswerable logic, but again only within the limits of his own hypothetical alternatives, he pointed out the absurdity of majority rule in which the vote of Honduras is equal to that of the United States or the ballot of Haiti holds as much weight as that of the Society Union. Therefore, he said, the only possible hope for peace lay in Big Five unanimity...
...government whose economic realm has been tremendously enlarged by national emergency. Facing Martha Sharp in the 14th District here, he has opposed workable trade agreements, price-control, and even a federal program of hot lunches for school children. His zealous financial pruning stopped, however, when he cast a ballot for the Wood-Rankin Un-American Activities inquisition. Knutson, who might assume leadership of the Ways and Means Committee, did his best for democracy in withdrawing during the vote on the Anti-Poll Tax Bill. Energetic Sol Bloom, a perfect picture of a legislator, would turn over his chairmanship...
...difficulties in the international field are not about votes in the Security Council or the disposition of Trieste or any of the things you see so frequently in the headlines. It is rather a choice between two systems, one democratic, the other totalitarian, one depending on the secret ballot, the other on secret police. Let no sophistry, no errors of government in our free society blind you to this distinction. Look at the whole balance sheet of America, not just a single detail, before you begin to disparage America...
...refine the technique of voting--of prime importance in any serious attempt at democratic procedure--would have been a simple task for a Council so inclined. Providing ballots, for example, for the seventy Varsity Club diners required little more than foresight. There were none at the Club Thursday. Simple planning would have made it possible for inter-House guests to vote. And to eliminate the advantages gained by certain candidates through alphabetical position on the ballot, the Council would merely have had to restore the old device, comprehensible to even the novice printer, of dividing top-of-the-list honors...
After weeks of delaying actions, false starts, and recounts, Radcliffe literateurs paused last night, carefully eyed their thesauri, and prepared to launch their now properly garbed slick. The entry of Law Student James Pines--Jimmy to the literary world--had emerged from pink, beribboned Annex ballot boxes to win an attenuated contest for naming the embryo literary magazine spawned by Miss Irene Tinker, Radcliffe...