Word: elected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he went abroad, two dark-skinned, cowboy-booted bodyguards were seldom far away. To the Mexicans of Duval County he represented both love and fear. Like his father he spoken fluent Spanish, almost invariably named a full slate of Latin Americans for the voters to elect. The sick, the jobless, the unlucky were seldom turned away from Parr's air-conditioned office. Duval County got good roads (built by George Parr's road company). He took care of important friends even more dramatically; one Thomas Y. Pickett, named as county oil evaluator (a job which takes...
...report says: "Any such student may elect, however, to remain in Harvard College and in a House for four years, and may devote as much of his fourth year as he chooses to courses in our Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
Martin, president-elect, American Medical Association; James Wechsler, editor, New York Post; Professor Louis Budenz, Fordham University; Michael Fry, Reuters correspondent to the U.N. for seven years; and George Hecht, president, Parents Institute...
...plan because it did not go to the "root of the problem," suggested instead an amendment to the Constitution that could force the President to resign from office if Congress disapproved (by a two-thirds majority) any agreement he signed with a foreign power. Then Congress would elect a new President. The suggestion might have been considered harebrained had it not come from the most widely syndicated political pundit in the U.S. The pundit: Columnist David Lawrence, 65, whose "Today in Washington." sold by the New York Herald Tribune to 257 U.S. newspapers, is the respected voice of right-wing...
Soon after the gentle people of the Maidive Islands abolished their centuries-old sultanate and elected Amin Didi their first President (TIME. Jan. 12, 1953), they began to regret it. Amin Didi was chock-full of reform plans-he wrote a new anthem to the tune of Auld Lang Syne; he abolished purdah and designed a new Mother Hubbard for women to wear; he forced the men to elect women to the legislature; he built an elaborate handicraft shop, despite the fact that rarely more than a half dozen tourists a year visit the isolated island chain...