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Word: bellion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...polling place opened its doors. At some there were no ballot boxes, at others no pencils. Almost none had received the voting sheets for all 43 contending parties. Frantic district poll officials swarmed to the headquarters of the electoral commission on the Avenue des Victimes de la Rébellion to find out what was wrong. They blanched at the scene: small boys toting huge piles of ballots dumped their loads into waiting trucks as guards gesticulated wildly. On the street, bundles of ballots burst open, and the faces of candidates which decorated each ballot stared up from the dusty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congo: Bumpy Road to Democracy | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

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