Word: counted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...showdown, Gaitskell could count on the support of the conservative trade unions, though he knows that union domination of the party is one of the things that repels many voters. The unions, no longer underdogs, no longer able to count on public sympathy for slowdowns, strikes and restrictive practices, are still the most powerful vested interest in the party. They provide 75% of its funds, control 17 of 28 seats in the National Executive Committee, elect 93 of Labor's 258 M.P.s, and cast blocks of a million or more votes at party conferences. And Gaitskell also appealed...
Lawrence's election was announced only after a recount. The initial count had indicated...
...count in the first 24-hour period of the long holiday weekend was well below the annual average of around...
...Although the polls show that a Republican, Vice President Richard Nixon, is running miles ahead of any other presidential candidate of either party as the present choice of the voters, the Republicans are just as emphatically the minority party in the U.S. In a sampled nose count last week, the Gallup poll found that 56.2 million voters prefer the Democratic Party, 37.6 million like the Republicans, and 8.5 million are still undecided...
...victim. Able, young Museum Director Forest Melick Hinkhouse, 34, soon had donations and art rolling in, ranging all the way from Van Dyck's Portrait of Charles I and Tintoretto's Portrait of a Nobleman to such modern works as Karel Appel's Portrait of Count Basie, John Hultberg's From a Car and Richard Diebenkorn's Woman by a Window...