Word: canvass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...card file of "friends" across the U.S. is growing steadily. Every day more than 20 requests for appearances, sometimes as many as 35, arrive at the Governor's headquarters. His political aides keep in closest touch with party developments around the U.S., and some of them canvass the nation talking up Rocky's record in New York...
...agreeable useless information that spices its usefulness. For the layman-though the specialist, whether on the bench or behind bars, may differ-the book commits no editorial high crimes, merely misdemeanors involving disproportion, inconsistency, British bias, together with some doubtless conscious sins of omission. If it fails to canvass its subject from A to Z (the last entry stops at Y), or from Lapland to Patagonia (it mostly treats Britain, the U.S. and Europe), or from hokus to strychnine (it wholly neglects weapons and poisons), its range is considerable, its writing often sprightly. Edited by a former chief of Scotland...
...road opposition parties. One led by three returned exiles, reported signing up 800 new members a day, were met by crowds so exuberant that they even embraced the police escorts. Another group, known as the National Civic Union, signed up 2,500 members in a three-day canvass of the non-Trujillo upper classes. The party's first act was to buy a two-page ad in El Caribe criticizing the government. Balaguer answered with a 2,000-word letter agreeing that changes were needed, but asking for patience. "You want the country to be converted into...
From a temporary Manhattan headquarters, staffed with secretaries from Dallas, executives who had been called in from Murchison enterprises all over the U.S. directed the fight with a quartermasterly eye for organization. The U.S. was divided into 80 zones, and dozens of Murchisonians were sent to canvass Alleghany shareholders in each area. An IBM computer kept a running count of the committed proxies; each scrap of paper that might offer a clue to the Murchison's strength or strategy was burned lest it fall into enemy hands. So zealous were Murchison solicitors that even after the final voting began...
...rallies and fraternity frivolities-"the undergraduate mating dance," in one professor's words. The faculty fared worse. Presiding for 25 years was miserly, grandiloquent "Rufus Rex"-President Rufus von KleinSmid, who claimed to be paying professors between $4,200 and $7,500 a year while a faculty canvass showed the average to be $3,600 and the lowest to be only $2,600. "Lord, those were dreadful years," recalls one survivor. "You couldn't discuss ideas with anybody. Nobody...