Word: eves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...election-eve advertisement the Socialist Party boldly deadpanned: "Why throw away your vote on either of them? The only vote that counts is a vote for the Socialist candidates...
...Preserve Our Union." On the very eve of Election Day, Candidate Roosevelt made one more little trip: a five-hour, 80-mile drive through Dutchess, Orange and Ulster counties to say a few words of greeting to his "friends and neighbors...
...with campaign "failure imminent . . . Republicans in despair might resort to a big adventure." The "adventure," it said, might well be a fake last-minute assassination plot against Dewey, with the Communists, of course, blamed for it. Thundered Izvestia: "History includes a number of such insolent, crude provocations on the eve of parliamentary elections in democratic countries, up to the burning of the Reichstag in Germany...
...Field Marshal Montgomery to join the Party after the war paled before the presence of Britain's No. 1 social-security expert among the Liberal members. With a general election likely next year, both the Liberal Party and its distinguished recruit firmly believe that Britain is on the eve of a Liberal revival- a genuine interest by the "disillusioned"' middle classes in the Party's progressive program. With pride Party chiefs pointed to the good Liberal showing in recent by-elections, higher Party enrollments, the constant stream of requests, many from the services, for expositions of Liberal...
Until the occupation, Picasso's politics, though pretty vague, were rather revolutionary than Stalinist. Obviously his formal party entry was long planned and delayed till the eve of the opening of the Salon d'Automne in order to make the maximum éclat...