Word: elected
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...purpose of the Princeton plan, however, is to "have students elect courses, which they might not otherwise elect because of the pressure of grades for graduate school, over-all average, and the like," Dean Knapp of Princeton said Tuesday...
...practice, democracy at the very least requires periodic free elections in which a representative majority of citizens may elect (or dismiss) a government. Most political scientists would demand more: one or more organized opposition parties to guarantee genuine choices, freedom from arbitrary arrest or intimidation, a free press, an independent judiciary, mechanisms guaranteeing the rights of minorities, and a system to protect or improve the economic well-being of all citizens...
...most south Texas towns, Mexican Americans in Crystal City (pop. 10,000) outnumber Anglo-Americans roughly 4 to 1. But not until two years ago did they muster enough voting strength to elect their own people to local office. Then, a group called the Political Association of Spanish-Speaking Organizations (PASO) launched a get-out-the-vote drive, produced a winning slate of five Mexican American city councilmen. It was the first time that Anglos had not controlled the municipal administration, and it was hailed as a harbinger of change throughout south Texas politics...
...government had been utterly unable to print and deliver the 10.5 million separate ballots required to enable Leopoldville's 160,000 registered voters to elect six national Assemblymen and seven Senators. At last Interior Minister Godefroid Munongo admitted defeat, announced the election would be held the following day instead. Seeking a scapegoat, he ordered Electoral Commission President Joseph Nsiku arrested on charges of sabotage...
Measuring Its Success. The Rosenblatts are Republicans, but editorially the Review lined up with Johnson and Democratic Senator-elect Frank E. Moss in the last election. Once, when a Utah state Republican representative, J. McKinnon Smith, threatened to "investigate as subversive" a model U.N. session conducted by Utah high school students, the Review editorialized: "Should Mr. Smith escape the call to public service at the polls next November, it has been suggested that he would make some corporation a wonderful vice president. These wags define a vice president as a man who goes to work in the morning and finds...