Word: costs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wallace could draw some consolation from the fact that his 508,542 votes in New York had cost Truman the state's 47 electoral votes. If he had been on the ballot in Illinois, and had received the 48 to 64,000 votes cast for Progressive candidates for local offices, he would have given Dewey that state too. But his loud & noisy campaign had struck no roots. He had managed to convince the voters that he had only one major policy-Russia was always right, the U.S. always wrong. Obviously, the future of Gideon's army...
...Londoner, obsessed by the high cost of living in Britain, wrote to the Times about the excesses of this year's Guy Fawkes Day, on which London urchins traditionally beg "a penny for the Guy, sir?" "I do not complain at the poorness of the floor show that they were putting on," he wrote solemnly, "but I recoiled to hear them cry, 'Tuppence for the Guy, sir?' ... I feel constrained to inquire whether the country can today afford a surcharge of 100 percent for such a matter...
Coach Lamar has spent most of the practice week trying to smooth out the weak spots that last week cost the Freshmen a 27 to 13 loss to Dartmouth. It was weakness on fundamentals, says Lamar, which accounted for the second half fumbles and pass interceptions and set up the Green's four touchdowns...
Maybe it's fate. Maybe it's just plain bad luck. But Ken O'Donnell's injury last Saturday which cost the Crimson his services for the rest of the season keeps intact an injury voodoo that has hit every Harvard football captain for six of the last seven seasons...
Stocking was clearly worsted in the encounter. He suffered a sprained knee, and his eyeglasses, which he was carrying in his hip pocket, were shattered. He will seek restitution from what he thinks were College men, for the cost of new lenses...