Word: elected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ranty may also divorce her husbands and return to her parents' house. She is then called a dhyanty and has a good deal of latitude about her choice of lovers. Should she elect to remarry, however, her new set of husbands must pay the first set of husbands a sum which is fixed by the village council. Since an individual suitor is rarely able to afford paying off several husbands, a dhyanty usually has to marry another group of brothers...
...Jews find embarrassing. He is an ex-radio gagwriter who severely judges his own work by the standards of the great English novelists. He is a Columbia-educated (class of '34), well-read intellectual with an abiding faith in "the common reader" ("They're good enough to elect our Presidents, aren't they?"). Although he is a highly sensitive member of a religious minority, he is one of the few living U.S. writers who carries no chip on his shoulder and who gives the U.S. straight A's in his fictional report cards...
...over Vincent Impellitteri) for mayor of New York City in 1953, and of Harriman (over Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.) for governor in 1954. Says De Sapio: "You can't impose your will on the people any more. If they select the candidate in a poll, they'll elect him." De Sapio's surveys also serve the practical purpose of deflating the political stock of the candidates he plans to oppose, and inflating the prestige of the man he favors. Carmine De Sapio has lost some elections-but he has never yet lost one of his polls...
...leadership which professes democracy but feels dragged toward dictatorship. Eight months ago, faced with public resentment against the ruling Moslem League, Governor General Ghulam Mohammed dissolved the Constituent Assembly and took over power for himself. Last month he called on the six provincial legislatures to elect representatives to a new Assembly. The result last week: a heavy defeat for the Moslem League...
David Dodds Henry, president-elect of the University of Illinois . . L.H.D...