Word: elected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whether student demonstrators are threatening the fabric of American society. Faced with the prospect of defending sometimes violent demonstrators, many liberals will either defend them and go down to defeat, or swing to the right. The only way to bring the war to an end is to try to elect an anti-war majority in Congress...
...tend to forget that this is a Government of the people, controlled by our ballots, and those whom we elect to represent us are only as good as those whom they represent...
...gasoline since the producing countries doubled the price of crude in January. Understandably, British Petroleum, Texaco, Esso Belgium and other oil companies now say that they cannot buy oil at pre-January prices. Their request for a 90% boost in prices, however, has been refused, at least until Belgians elect a new government next week. Rather than continue to operate in the red most of the multinationals have banned further shipments of oil into Belgium. As a result, Belgium could become the first European country to experience U.S.-style gasoline lines...
Clearly shaken, the Emperor of Ethiopia, Lion of Judah, Elect of God and King of Kings mounted the balcony of his lion-guarded Jubilee Palace in Addis Ababa. Speaking to 600 members of the armed forces, Haile Selassie declared in a faltering and cracking voice: "This is a poor land. Your country cannot afford to give you more. I appeal to your loyalty!" From the palace courtyard, the Emperor received the expected cheers of support. But in Ethiopia's key garrison towns, where thousands of his soldiers were mutinying, the appeal fell on deaf ears. There, junior officers...
...about the only good news that Heath could offer British voters as he took his bid for a new five-year mandate down to the wire. Amid a nationwide coal miners' strike and a government-ordered three-day work week, Britain goes to the polls this week to elect a new Parliament in its ninth general election since World War II. As the campaign headed into its third and final week, new issues tumbled into the headlines almost as fast as the candidates could cope with them...