Search Details

Word: electioneering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Three years ago, though out of power, Britain's Laborites gained 204 seats in borough elections. Last week, having dropped 216 in the last local election, they were just about back where they started from. The conspicuous failure of Labor's leaders to offer any spirited competition or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Lost Gains | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

Neither side would budge. One Red battalion was encamped in a small valley called Xieng Ngeun, twelve miles from the ancient capital city of Luang Prabang, and the only exit from the valley was guarded by two Royal Laotian battalions and a detachment of paratroopers. The other was stationed on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAOS: Jungle Trickery | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

Behind Vargas' enforced resignation lay President Carlos Garcia's well-justified nervousness about next fall's Philippine senatorial elections. In the two years since Magsaysay's death in a plane crash elevated him to the presidency, high-living Carlos Garcia has become identified with economic mismanagement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Garcia Gets Ready | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

The Harvard Varsity Club elected Harold J. Keohane '60, of Winthrop House and Arlington, Mass., president, in its election yesterday.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Keohane Elected | 5/29/1959 | See Source »

Library hours were extended, primarily through efforts of the Council; revision of election procedures reduced chances of recurrence of this year's difficulties; and if a stop sign is finally installed at Plympton and Bow, the Council will be largely responsible. But undergraduates remained apathetic, and many of the old...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students' Council | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

Previous | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | Next