Word: isn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...specter of forcing an election into the Congress is mild if compared with the crisis we would face in a close election based on popular vote. Recounts, absentee ballots, and other less legitimate vote juggling in close precincts would keep an election in doubt for months. The Electoral College isn't perfect, but it's usually decisive. And if it fails, I'd rather trust Congress than Cook County...
...studied the files that passed over his desk last week, Elson was particularly amused to find Stringer Dick Rawe in Cincinnati reporting that he had seen a car carrying the neatly lettered sign: "My God Isn't Dead. Sorry About Yours...
...white landscape slides irrelevantly back and forth into view like an askew plane in space. You expected beforehand to have a feeling of neat perpendicularity towards the land you were falling to. But as you fall, your mind isn't aware of any geometrical relationship to the ground; it relates only to the airplane...
...there is nothing you can say, there's nothing it can mean, there just simply isn't anything at all in your experience that you can call to mind to compare with this and conclude anything from. Falling through the sky is totally unknown...
...facts indicate that the Governor is wrong. The basic allowance for women with two children is about $50 per week. This money is meant to cover all of a family's needs. It just isn't enough, and to keep families going at all, an informal system of extra payments has developed. These extra payments are not for luxuries: they are an essential part of a welfare recipient's income. Now the money for these payments is running out--as a direct consequence of the welfare mismanagement and profiteering that was revealed this week. The mothers who demonstrated...