Word: elected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...academic society selected 12 Radcliffe juniors last month and will elect the top twelve present of the Class of '85 within the next five weeks
...People didn't elect me on my playing ability," Kaufman says...
...MILLION PRAYING FOR YOU, TANCREDO, read a banner outside Sao Paulo's Heart Institute. Television broadcasts mixed Easter week religious messages with prayers for President-elect Tancredo Neves, 75. In Neves' home state of Minas Gerais, an archbishop led special prayers at a Mass attended by 10,000 people. Outside the institute, hundreds of Brazilians, some weeping, waited for the latest medical bulletin...
...more than three weeks, Brazil has been in a state of suspended animation, while the life of its President-elect has hung in the balance. Only hours before Neves was to be sworn in on March 15 as Brazil's first civilian President after 21 years of military rule, he had to undergo emergency surgery for diverticulitis, an inflammation of the intestinal tract. The operation appeared to be successful, but Neves soon had to go under the knife again, this time to remove a blockage caused by the first procedure. He seemed on his way to recovery once more, when...
...centered on the presidential sickbed, Sao Paulo became, in effect, Brazil's second capital. Cabinet ministers and state Governors converged on the hospital to lend support to Neves' family. At the same time, senior government officials reportedly met to decide what to do in the event of the President-elect's death. Vice President Jose Sarney, 54, concluded that he could no longer keep official matters on hold. "I'm going to start wielding my pen," he said after the fourth operation. "Regardless of the respect I have for President Tancredo Neves, the interests of the country are at stake...