Word: galluped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...already busy at war, in uniforms and in the confused civilian beehives of Washington, there had been a conviction that the nation had not yet waked up, that even now people did not understand what the war was going to do to their homes, their businesses. But a Gallup poll indicated that the people's eyes were open: 71% were in favor of the most drastic invasion of U.S. family life yet-drafting men with dependents into military service. Other signs of the transition...
Crying for quick action, 82% of the people, according to the latest Gallup poll, favor outright imprisonment of guilty "blacketeers." But Britain's eminent Solicitor General Sir William Jowitt, who knows more than anyone about the extent and ramifications of the black market, favored a shorter shrift. In a speech at Ashton-under-Lyne, he declared: "We have played with this thing long enough. ... I, for my part, would like to see war courts set up and people found guilty of the crime ordered to face a firing squad...
...Evanston, Ill., last week a band of serious, middling-to-elderly ladies, the brain trust of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, clucked appreciatively over a Gallup poll on Prohibition sentiment. After eight years of Repeal, 36% of the Gallup-checked electorate said they were willing to try Prohibition once again...
...George Gallup...
...large the people seemed unaffected by this universal obloquy, however darkly their critics talked. When the Gallup Poll asked, Do you think the United States is doing all it can toward winning the war? some 78% offhandedly answered...