Word: levered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...polling place, Jackson inspired an outpouring of black voters without precedent in the Empire State. An estimated 270,000 blacks cast ballots, easily double the turnout for the Carter-Kennedy primary in 1980. According to various exit polls, anywhere from 84% to 92% of them pulled the voting-machine lever for Jackson, well exceeding the percentages he drew in earlier primaries in Illinois and the South...
...development, SelectaVision works much like a phonograph. A diamond needle picks up video and audio signals from the tiny grooves of a silvery plastic disc whirling at 450 r.p.m. To operate the machine, which is connected to a TV set, the user simply inserts a disc and flips a lever...
Sigmund Diamond's interest in university FBI relations is more than an academic pursuit. Diamond himself was a victim of McCarthy lever at Harvard, at the hands of no less than McGeorge Bundy--who was then dean of the Faculty and who later went on to become national security advisor under President John F. Kennedy...
...last three years, he is going fortnightly about making himself the issue in the upcoming campaign. He's turned around the economy, he has America "standing tall again," and he's not going to let the voters forget it. Still, Reagan has to get enough people to pull the lever for him come November. Pollsters estimate that the incumbent commands a devoted following among about 35 percent of the electorate a larger base than either Gerald Ford of Jimmy Carter had at the time of their election...
...name recognition even among recent residents of his home state, Florida. Only Jesse Jackson, irrepressible and sometimes outrageous, seems to be gaining converts in his long-shot crusade. But while Jackson has shown that a black can be a potent force in the primaries, he seems more of a lever for black demands than a legitimate threat to win the nomination. His campaign is disorganized, and he delivers messages rather than programs...