Word: countings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Doorbells & Brass Tacks. First to acknowledge the threat was G.O.P. Committee Chairman Len Hall. Said he: "Let us not underestimate the opposing party. They're strong and tough, and despite what they claim, they're well financed. Every single vote will count in this next election. Any Republican who feels this election is in the bag-who fails to register and vote-is taking a great risk." The pundits were calling the same signals. Hard-shell Conservative Columnist David Lawrence urged Ike to "get down to brass tacks and explain the issues...
...opening contest pits the Crimson against Tufts, and this Jumbo eleven will not be as difficult as the one the football team meets the next Saturday. This should count...
Jigsaw Fragments. The Yard sent Detective Superintendent Herbert Hannam, a homicide specialist whose quiet, aristocratic looks have inspired the press to call him "The Count." From London dozens of newsmen burst into Eastbourne like an explosion of profanity at a church tea. They camped in once-quiet hotel lobbies, queued up at the municipal clerk's office to buy samples of death certificates, trailed police cars and pounded on the doors of frightened old ladies. They dredged up every rumor in town-and their editors printed whatever they thought they could get away with...
Wherever he rode-and he rode all over the world-Johnny earned a reputation as an honest jock who always gave his horse a good ride. He was up on Count Fleet when that great runner took the Kentucky Derby in 1943; he was piloting Noor when that Irish-bred fighter got his nose in front of Citation to win the San Juan Capistrano Handicap. Today he owns a modest California mansion- modest, that is, for a millionaire jockey-for a time he had a 500-acre Nevada ranch and he followed the ponies around the circuit...
...There were others, e.g., Hungary's famed Count Geza Zichy (1849-1924), who wrote his own left-hand works; the modern Czechoslovakian Otakar Hollman, who commissioned Janacek's Capriccio...