Word: filed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They were picked by the nominating committee of the Council; others who wish to run will have to file a petition with 25 names before 5 p.m. next Wednesday. All the nominated men have to do is to signify assent and hand in a brief biography and picture...
...night in a tavern, the young bucks got together: they would file their own slate for the village elections. Hot Rod would run against his father; another young fellow would oppose his father-in-law for a seat on the village board. They rounded up 48 votes, figured that they thus controlled better than half of the votes usually cast. The trick was to pretend that their campaign was all a gag, so that the oldsters wouldn't get stirred...
Cutting the Pipe. Nearly 48 hours after Kathy's fall, the lateral tunnel reached the well pipe. But rescue was hours away. Drill after drill broke. Doggedly, the workmen tried a pneumatic saw. Over the loudspeaker, the screech of their drilling sawed like a file on taut nerves. Finally at 6 o'clock Sunday night they asked that the microphones be turned off. There was a paralyzed wait that dragged on to two hours...
...cantonal elections, Communists got 184 seats; this time, anti-Red coalitions held Communist victories to 37. The Gaullists got 29% of the popular vote, and the government coalition of Socialists, Radicals and Popular Republicans did even better, with 35%. Failure of the Communist appeal to the Socialist rank & file meant that the Gaullist attitude toward Communism had pervaded the government parties. The political center of gravity in France had shifted to the right center. Continued progress toward economic recovery would keep it there...
Among the best is a series of drawings from official documents of the 29th-34th Congresses, by unidentified artists: scenes of camps and deserts, with the exquisite finish and the unearthliness of Dali's early work-a train of mules vanishing, single file, into the haze of the desert, ridden by grave, top-hatted emigrants; a mirage of tall minareted cities, floating on the horizon...