Word: contentedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In spite of Democratic portents, however, Ives should still win--by a whisker. This is because there are not enough registered voters in New York City, Harriman's stronghold, to offset the Republican edge in the more contented upstate areas. The key votes belong to the two million upstate voters...
No motion was even made to tender the organization's support to gubernatorial candidate Robert F. Murphy. Murphy has stated that he would refuse endorsement by the A.D.A. state organization. The H.L.U. membership contented itself with endorsing the candidacies of Democrat James Gardner for Congress in the 13th District, and...
Perhaps because the train ride to Cornell will be tiring enough itself, Coach Lloyd Jordan contented himself and the 36 varsity players by trying passing and running series, but reserving blocking and tackling work.
∙ The threads of such individual testimony weave larger truths. First and clearest of these is the fact that, except for the morbidly pleased ex-Nazis and ex-Fascists, the only Europeans who discuss the Wisconsin Senator with contented smiles are the Communists.
¶ Chadwick and an aide methodically read excerpts from the Army-McCarthy hearings as evidence that McCarthy had urged Government employees to violate the law by turning over to him classified documents, and that he had, in fact, on at least one occasion, received and made use of such information...