Word: casts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kenneth D. Borg--Kirkland House; cast, '50 Jubilee skit; Glee Club; SANSS; House crew; Student Council Committee on Education...
...Miracle of Itri. There was little violence. Carabinieri stationed around polling places merely kept the crowds moving (the Reds tried to slow up the voting wherever they could), and minded babies while mothers cast their ballots. Some Communist members of the election boards tried, despite hawk-eyed poll watchers of the major parties, to invalidate ballots-the slightest blemish on a ballot was enough for the purpose. (One Italian columnist implored his female readers to remove their lipstick before wetting the flap of the ballot "just as if you were giving a little kiss to a man with a suspicious...
When Alcide de Gasperi cast his vote after a one-day rest in Capri, his wife said: "I hope my husband will not be the Premier again. He is so tired." Said he: "We will not fail democracy." Then he went off to Castel Gandolfo to bowl with some of his friends among the local peasants. He was losing badly when a sudden rainstorm broke up the game...
...certain number of Assembly seats are assigned to each electoral district, according to its size. The total number of votes cast (e.g., 500,000), is divided by the total number of seats (e.g., 10), giving an electoral quotient (50,000). A party polling 160,000 votes of the total in its district can fill three quotients, i.e., get three seats. The spare 10,000 votes are diverted to a national pool where they are merged with spare votes from other districts until there are enough to fill another quotient...
...Canadians are against that. Some big industrialists, sure that they could compete in it successfully, cast covetous eyes on a combined market of 156 million. Best examples: makers of fine papers, furniture, alloy metals. The Maritimes, where many believe that confederation was a mistake, have a friendlier feeling for the U.S. than for Ontario. Said Nova Scotia's Industry Minister Harold Connolly: "Complete economic unity between Canada and the U.S. is inevitable...