Word: lows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...election was the greatest possible tribute to the secret ballot, which is the heart of democracy. It is true that the vote was low;* there was considerable evidence that many had voted reluctantly. But a reluctant vote counts just as much as an enthusiastic one. The election was a decision, perhaps some day to be amended (as democracy can and does amend its choices), but an affirmative decision nevertheless...
...Governor Thomas E. Dewey (at Albany) : "I was quite surprised by the very low vote. It looks as though two or three million Republicans stayed home, out of overconfidence. That one fact stands out from the returns...
Other legislation which the President had asked for in July and which presumably he would ask for again: extension of rent control (due to expire March 31) and a housing bill-if not the Taft-Ellender-Wagner bill for building 500,000 housing units for low-income families, then something very much like...
...Army draftees were not to be regarded as species of a low zoological order but as young citizens, each with a militant Mom poised and ready to holler outside a Congressman's door. Furthermore, they were to be treated with patience, tolerance and understanding and were never to be subjected to the flash-burn of Old Army profanity...
...Britons chose, they could read the latest findings of the British Gallup poll, which showed that the Labor Party had sunk to a new low last month: Tories, 48%; Labor, 41%; Liberals, 10%; Others, 1%. Last week some wags persisted in regarding these findings as "good news for Attlee...