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Word: ballotings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...secretaries endorsed the sport's reinstatement in a 6-3 ballot last Tuesday. The Faculty Athletic Committee will make the final decision when it meets about the first of April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intramural Boxing May Be Reinstated | 3/13/1973 | See Source »

...speaker on this austere occasion. Hey, hey, well, frankly I am not sure myself how you came to be selected. I suppose my classmates are great admirers of your acting and writing talents. Also, as I remember it now, your name was listed first on the ballot because your last name begins with...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Play It Again, Sam | 3/13/1973 | See Source »

...First Marshal of the Class of 1973 sent off the Class Day speaking invitation to the wacked-out Mr. Allen a couple of weeks ago. There would seem to be no other rationale for his selection by the Senior Class other than order of call on a preferential ballot for Class Day speakers...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Play It Again, Sam | 3/13/1973 | See Source »

Just how Allen came out atop the poll of seniors is unclear. Not even half of the class voted. I, for one, never saw a ballot--certainly not one headed by Woody Allen, Walter Cronkite and Madame Binh--and I eat most meals in the dining halls, where the voting took place...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Play It Again, Sam | 3/13/1973 | See Source »

...smoothly. In northeast Dublin, its workers delivered scores of voters to polling places in a shuttle of buses. In the Rialto district, they assembled strange processions of the elderly and infirm who looked as if they could scarcely make it to the nearest park bench, much less to the ballot box. There was even a Spanish nun, a fervent supporter of Prime Minister Jack Lynch, who appeared at one Dublin polling place to vote for the local Fianna Fáil candidate. But she was challenged and told she could not vote. "All right," she declared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRELAND: Fianna F | 3/12/1973 | See Source »

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