Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House by insisting−despite his strong stand favoring normalization with China−that the Senate express concern over the security of Taiwan. Similarly, in the midst of the Iran turmoil, he needled Saudi Arabia by contending in an ill-timed and ill-conceived statement that it "cannot count on our unequivocal support" unless it helps conclude an Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty...
When an ERA sponsor, State Senator W. Craig Lawing of Charlotte, took a head count, he discovered that he had only 23 votes, to the opponents' 27. The bill then died in committee...
...Masiell--as he himself emphasizes--has had a checkered career in show business. "It's been a push, a battle, a struggle for a long while," he commented after opening night. "I've been at it since 1960 and, let's see, I've been in 12 flops, count 'em folks, 12." Masiell, who starred for ten years in Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, sang two songs from that play ("Madeleine" and "Amsterdam") with an uncanny empathy...
Danchy warns that the City Council may be tying its own hands by restricting building heights in the square. There's only six square miles in Cambridge that can be commercially developed, he says--but you can't count the two-plus owned by Universities...
...Crimson held a 29-25 advantage with seven minutes left in the stanza when the roof collapsed. Penn recaptured the lead, 31-30, and then reeled off ten more points as the Crimson's scoring drive stalled. At halftime the count stood Penn 43, Harvard...