Word: margin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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East had been on top of the swimming world after a rally on the marathon's last day had earned back the lead East had held early in the week before a North House comeback. The margin of victory had been 15 laps, but the recount showed North the winner by 82 laps...
...leading Syndicate member, would thwart her socialistic policies, Indira dismissed him from the Cabinet. Last July, in a direct test of strength, she nominated her own candidate, V. V. Giri, to run against the Syndicate's choice for the presidency of India. He won by a narrow margin...
...Washington, a suburb of Seattle, residents faced another difficult choice. Did they want to preserve a wooded park? Or did they want to bulldoze the tall conifers to make way for a nine-hole community golf course? The voters of the community decided by a decisive 2-to-1 margin that conservation was more important than recreation...
Besides Good, one other incumbent City Councillor Daniel J. Hayes Jr. failed to win re-election. Mahoney, also an incumbent, retained his seat by a narrow margin of some 80 votes. "Well, this one was a cliffhanger," he said...
...deeper discontent with the PR system itself, which has never been universally popular in Cambridge. On four occasions, anti-PR groups have put on the ballot referendums on whether to retain the system. Each time, however, voters approved of PR; the last time, in 1965, by a 2500-vote margin...