Word: countings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Minutes after the blast, Roseburg began to rally. From the Rumblebees Motorcycle Club to the National Guard, volunteer forces backed up police and firemen, sealed off the 23-block danger area, hauled the 52 injury cases to hospitals, kept out looters. Damage estimates ran to $12 million, but the count on the dead was harder to come by. The coroner's deputies accounted for twelve bodies, then sent off for lab tests samples of lighter ashes that might be eight or more transients in transient apartments. Five blocks from the crater lay a bent axle, the biggest piece left...
Probing into farmers' political opinions, Lubell found a Democratic trend still running in the Midwest, but scant enthusiasm for Democratic presidential hopefuls. Adlai Stevenson's defeats in '52 and '56 count against him, Lubell found. "A blank stare was often the reaction I got to the names of [Minnesota's] Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, [Missouri's] Stuart Symington and [Texas'] Lyndon B. Johnson." Of all the Democratic hopefuls, Massachusetts' "John F. Kennedy emerges as almost the only one who stirs any real public interest." Among Republican voters, "Vice President Richard M. Nixon...
...Bottom. As the word got around, Chileans themselves started up to Portillo for a crack at its runs, such as the famed Juncal-down a 40° drop, to an iced-over stream and a snow bridge. At the lower stretches, where Chilean ski troopers were training, skiers could count on a swig of fine sparkling wine at the army post...
...When you unsnap your brassiere." leered the San Francisco Chronicle columnist who calls himself Count Marco, "do you let out a loud 'whoosh' of relief and stand there grunting and scratching like some happy sow, or do you have your [husband] help with the snaps, then gracefully cross your arms as you let it slip down...
Mademoiselle crammed her voluminous journals with vivid vignettes. One episode she understandably failed to record concerned Count de Lauzun who hid under the bed of Mme. de Montespan, mistress to Louis XIV, and later mimicked her conversation back to her word for word. Mademoiselle did describe the bloodiest battle of the Fronde, when she saw the Duke de la Rochefoucauld staggering toward her, "having received a musket-ball through his eyes and nose, so that his eyes seemed to be falling out, and he kept blowing the blood away as though he feared one of his eyes might fall into...