Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this plan of campaign: Tom Dewey and his advisers were firmly convinced that 1944 was no year for barnstorming. They wanted to keep the campaign on a high, even solemn level, befitting a time of crisis. On the practical side, they knew that the mistakes a candidate makes count much more heavily, and stick in the voters' minds much more firmly, than positive gains...
...dates for completed ballots varied in the 48 states from five days before, to 27 days after, Nov. 7. Virginia required all ballots to be in by Nov. 2; Rhode Island would count soldier votes up to Dec. 4. Pennsylvania, which believed that it had the biggest number of applications (620,000) will not count them until Nov. 22. If the soldier vote should be the determining factor, the U.S. may have to wait days or even weeks after Nov. 7 to learn the election results...
...Duke of Wellington, 31, sixth of his line, who was also a Netherlands prince, a Spanish grandee, a Portuguese count. He was killed in Italy last year. To a mess steward who doubted his identity, the Duke once explained: "It's the same name so many pubs have...
...Manhattan members of Alcoholics Anonymous recently shed their anonymity. Alcoholics Anonymous is a fast-growing national organization of ex-drinkers pledged to help other alcoholics get well. They count chiefly on constant social intercourse among alcoholics who want to be cured. The two members are convinced that most of the estimated 600,000 alcoholics in the U.S. (there are 3,000,000 estimated excessive drinkers) can get over their drinking...
...brochure titled Postwar National Income, to whack all other postwar estimators as, in effect, so many dizzards, noodles, lackwits and dunderheads. The distinguished list of numbskulls obviously included the Committee for Economic Development, the Department of Commerce, and Planner Ruml, as economists who either: 1) could not count straight, or 2) who had added & subtracted the wrong things...