Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With 15 priests standing by in a local pub to ensure fair play, Desmond and Joe tossed a coin for the nomination. Joe called "heads" and won the seat. But the question East Tyrone voters are now debating is: Did Joe win fair & square? For the coin they tossed was not of the British variety bearing the Queen's head, but a coin of the Irish Republic, with a harp on one side and a horse on the other. Joe Stewart, say the Mallon partisans, should have called "horses," not "heads...
...lure U.S. tourists scared off by its growing reputation as a center of Communist influence. Guatemala this year decided to stage a lavish international fair. Jorge Toriello, a high-powered businessman who backs the regime, was put in charge with $1,080,000 to spend. Promising the republic a gambling casino, horse races, Miami-style dog racing, Ferris wheels, a roller-coaster and a brand-new bullring, Toriello pitched right...
John W. Lyons, last mayor of Cambridge prior to Plan E, and presently publisher of the weekly Courier, says, "I have never been in favor of PR. The people just don't got a fair shake nowadays. PR is too confusing." In 1940, at a time when he was under indictment on 64 counts of requesting and accepting bribes, Lyons appeared before the old Plan B Council to argue against buying new snow plows of which the city owned not even one. He observed that as "the Almighty sends the snow, . . . He will in time remove it." For in those...
Parietal rules in their present form are working out "smoothly" and to the apparent satisfaction of everyone concerned, Gordon M. Fair, Dunster Housemaster, and Mason Hammond, Leverett master, concluded last night on station WHRB's "The Student Council...
Hammond added, however, that the rules this fall have evidently been "satisfactory to everyone at Kirkland." Fair concurred, pointing out that student conduct at Dunster this year has been good...