Word: containing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...across the U.S.; ballots were hand-marked and handcounted. There were poll watchers and watchers who watched the poll watchers. As the counting continued, there were claims of foul from both sides. The 3,000 Steelworkers of Puerto Rico, for example, complained that the bundle they had expected to contain ballots brought only campaign propaganda mailed from Abel's office...
...land is estimated to contain 2000 billion barrels of oil equivalent, or about 25 times the amount produced in the entire history of this country. Galbraith stressed that the government must be particularly cautious in the disposition of such a valuable publicly owned resource...
There must be a nagging fear, however, in the minds of skiing's entrepreneurs, that the boom may contain the seeds of its own destruction, for so much of the appeal of the sport in the past was esoteric. A skiing holiday was a kind of retreat and the jargon and attire proved to be gamesmanly ploys back home. But now that every street urchin has a quilted parka, this sort of appeal has been irrevocably lost. The question is: how much of skiing's popularity has been due to the sport itself and how much to the ancillary institutions...
...first, going over some last-minute blocking assignments. He was visibly keyed up and said little. "It's your game. Let's do a job." Lentz was nervous. Quickly, he went over all the important defensive plays, especially for the defensive backfield. With Mercein out, we would have to contain Yale's top offensive threat, quarterback Ed McCarthy's passing...
Many of these bits of advice are patently false; others contain considerably more than a grain of truth. The following are a few of the more prevalent rumors and what students and officials at medical schools along the eastern seaboard had to say concerning them...