Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Intransigent Radicals, who had ardently wooed the Peronista vote, even promising to dissolve the Assembly if they gained control, trailed with 1,839,545. Juan Perón, in his time a popular tyrant who once polled close to 5,000,000 votes, drew fewer than 2,000,000 blank protest ballots in spite of the well-organized, well-financed campaign he had conducted from his Venezuelan exile...
...life he had stammered, but on this occasion there was no trace of it. When he took leave of two of his children and intimates, his courtesy won the admiration of his jailers, and when the exiled Prince of Wales (Charles II of the Restoration) sent a signed blank sheet of paper to Parliament agreeing to anything that would save his father's life, and a similar document to Charles, the King tossed it into the fire. Always a religious man, he found comfort in the thought that he would soon be with Christ, and always a meticulous...
Hard-core Peronistas, outlawed as a party but still reasonably well organized through former Dictator Juan Peron's spy network, are being urged by clandestine leaflets to cast blank ballots in all elections until their hero returns. A hodgepodge of smaller parties, whose leaders fear a licking at the polls, has also come out for blank ballots. Meanwhile, the powerful Radicals faction, headed by Lawyer Arturo Frondizi, is hoping to gain control of the assembly, vote its immediate dissolution and call for general elections. The People's Radical Party, which split off from the Frondizi group last winter...
...eventual goal: the presidential office with all its powers intact. Hopefully for the Aramburu program, these voters have been drifting over to Frondizi in smaller numbers than he expected. On the other hand, if the halfhearted ex-Peronistas adopt the hard core's self-defeating plan to cast blank ballots, they may paradoxically help Aramburu by letting a pro-reform coalition get balance-of-power control of the assembly. In that event, the People's Radicals would probably lead the way in fierce haggling and vote-trading and come out with at least part of the Aramburu program...
...striking a balance between monumentality and friendliness, Gropius in some instances departed radically from ancient Greek models. Classic Greek houses had a closed, blank façade facing the street; the new U.S. embassy will be open and inviting, with neither walls, fences nor closed façade obstructing the view into the interior court. "The building will be approachable, and thus democratic," said Gropius. "The visitor will not feel the impact of authority, but will enter the building as a free...