Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...established in 1946, Pollster George Gallup last week sent his interviewers out to ask a cross section of the U.S. public: "What man that you have heard or read about, living today in any part of the world, do you admire the most?" The most admired, by a wide margin: Dwight D. Eisenhower. Winner Eisenhower (who also was top man in 1952) had as many votes as the combined total of the next two men on the list-Sir Winston Churchill and General Douglas MacArthur. Other high-ranking also-rans: Harry S. Truman, Adlai E. Stevenson, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen...
Meanwhile-though there seemed to be a faint chance that the A.F.L. might pick up a winning margin from the challenged ballots-President Meany immediately began fighting for time to do more organizing. He protested the election, charging that it had been "conducted under circumstances of intimidation and violence by known criminals." New York's Governor Tom Dewey leaped to his side immediately by ordering an investigation of the election by state agencies. "Reports have come to me," said the governor, "of the presence of gangsters and hoodlums in the vicinity of polling places." Whatever the Labor Board...
...kickoff time, a crowd of 54,577 was packed into Detroit's Briggs Stadium despite freezing weather, and another estimated 20 million were set to watch the game on television in the biggest (134-station) hookup in sports-television history. Cleveland was favored by just three points, the margin of a field goal that might be kicked by Cleveland's famed Tackle Lou ("The Toe") Groza. But Layne & Co. had other ideas. Detroit's huge (average: 235 Ibs.), hard-charging line forced Graham to fumble soon after the opening kickoff. Layne promptly called on an old Texas...
...Gymnasts were able to hold Sacks to a mere 14 points, however, before he fouled out, but Ed Blodnick helped fill the slack with ten, and Ed Condon added seven more. The Crimson piled up a field goal margin of 18 to 11, to make up for a deficit in the free throw column...
Harold F. Levy '55 of Adams House, who reportedly lost by a slim margin, yesterday maintained that the proper steps were not taken to allow members of the basketball team, playing Cornell at Ithaca Wednesday, and other students not in Cambridge, to vote for the class Council representatives...