Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shuffle of ballots, one item of striking significance was widely overlooked-in a vote dominated by pocketbook considerations, the Republicans had come close to running the Democrats a dead heat! The booming prosperity since 1954 has strengthened further the Republican economic appeal . . . The chief Republican liability [i.e., the stigma of depressions] has been ebbing-just how fast is the question that probably will decide the 1956 election...
...shock of his experience slowly wore off, Riesel began to sound like his old self again. Said he: "To the press, radio and TV: keep the heat on. To the decent men of labor: for God's sake stop looking the other way, stop apologizing and sidestepping. [Begin] an all-out war against...
These prophecies are neither reckless nor novel. Most of us are aware that the heat generated by our recent national election campaigns arises largely from conflicts only remotely related to the great issues around which the history of the second half of the twentieth century will ultimately be written. We have become accustomed to this state of affairs, and only rarely do we bother to ask ourselves what can be done about...
...should have been picked as the fifth finalist and the other two should have swum off for the sixth position. But this hardly seemed fair to Kruthers, who had beaten Clinton. So the NCAA decided to let all seven be finalists. The four fastest qualifiers would swim in one heat, and Clinton, Kruthers, and Pemberton would swim in another...
Unfortunately, however, two heats meant that the final placings would have to be determined on times. The officials had gotten themselves into this mess through faulty timing, and now they were opening the way for more confusion. And they had not long to wait. In the last heat, Pedro Galvao of S.M.U. (58.8) beat Lyn Meiring of Oklahoma (58.7) by a stroke. Since the officials had announced that the finals would be determined on times, however, the place judges had to give way to the timers. Meiring had to be given second place over Galvao...