Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...front with Frondizi's Intransigent Radical party. At the last minute, the front found most of its choices for the electoral college disqualified by the army. From his exile in Madrid, Perón told his followers that since they were legally required to vote, they should cast blank ballots; under house arrest in the Argentine mountain resort town of Bariloche, Frondizi did the same. Together, they were supposed to control 40% of the voters...
Expecting trouble, the military posted 70,000 troops at polls around the country on election day. But, to the surprise of most everybody, there were no incidents-and nothing like 40% blank ballots. Weary of living in political limbo and anxious to participate again in the democratic process, many regarded as Peronistas or followers of Frondizi cast their ballots for other candidates. Of some 10 million votes, only 17% were blank. Dr. Arturo Illía, whose middle-reading party calls itself the People's Radicals, wound up with 27% of the total, worth 169 electoral votes. Dr. Oscar...
...handful of grass into the air, stared stupefied as the grass soared straight upward. Of 401 rounds played, only five were below par 71-incredible in this day of precision golf. There were so many climatic complaints that it was soon called "the Crybaby Open." "This persnickety blankety-blank course," muttered aging (51) Sam Snead, his hopes of finally winning the Open shattered after rounds of 74-75-79-83. "My disappointment and frustration have been extreme," allowed youthful (23) Jack Nicklaus, his hopes for a second straight Open title crushed when he bogeyed the first three holes and failed...
...enables Nabokov to play complicated games with the meanings of words. Fyodor is a poet, and without warning his thoughts run in poetic form; only the reader wary of Nabokov's incorrigible love of verbal conjuring will notice that whole pages printed as prose conceal rhyme schemes or blank verse and complicated prosodical measures...
...Target is put together somewhat like a child's primer; printed in various type faces (recipes themselves are italicized, POINTS OF SPECIAL URGENCY set in bold capital letters), it affords the reader generous blank spaces where he is encouraged to scrawl his own reactions, such as, "I wish I had my money back...