Word: casted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...take the stored harvest for granted. Americans sense an uncertain and uncontrolled element in their lives. That is evident in the kind of restless discontent that appeared in the off-year elections, not only in the cautious and sometimes contradictory voting but also in the low numbers of votes cast. "There is a mood of apprehension and anxiety, a fear of the unknown," says Northwestern University Political Scientist Louis Masotti. Boston Globe Columnist Jeremiah V. Murphy summed it up neatly when he wrote, "We should feel better than we actually do. But nobody knows...
...Bobby Fowkes leaves a rather questionable situation. Jackie Hughes remains the All-East, pro-bound patriarch of the backlines. Steady Jim Trainor returns for his fourth season on the varsity, while newcomer Carter and letterman John Dunderdale join him to form the upperclass nucleus. The strength of the supporting cast for Jackie, though, will rely heavily on the play of freshmen Mitch Olson, a bruiser from Minnetonka, Minn., and Alan Litchfield from Scituate...
...being deposited in a garbage can because there were no proper boxes. In another precinct, the election supervisor was reported to be reading ballots before putting them in the box. At yet another polling place, Police Officer James Jablonski reported, precinct officials consulted a list of names and repeatedly cast ballots. Explained one with striking candor: "We just have six more to do. These are ghost voters." When an official offered Jablonski a wad of bills if he would forget what he had seen, he arrested them for attempted bribery, ballot-box stuffing and tampering with election materials...
...himself outpolled in the primary by the "no" votes. In neighboring Idaho, Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Allan Larsen suffered a similar slight. To underscore Incumbent John Evans' refusal to debate, Larsen paid for a televised confrontation with an empty chair. That helped one voter make up his mind: he cast a write-in vote for the empty chair...
...issue of women's ordination ought to be decided by each national church. By taking that position, observers thought, the English Anglicans were foreshadowing approval of the bitterly disputed proposal. The lead had already been taken by Canada, New Zealand and Hong Kong with little backlash. But the U.S. cast a shadow: after a close pro-ordination vote for women in 1976, the church suffered an embarrassing schism when angry conservatives left to form a renegade Anglican Catholic denomination...