Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York City is heavily Democratic and the upstate area is largely Republican; the determining factor in any state election is the difference between the Democrats' city majority and the Republicans' upstate margin. The edge this year, the polls would indicate, belongs to the Democrats; Harriman has the additional advantage of being an incumbent, for New York likes to keep Governors for more than one term. Rockefeller and Keating need to wage a much more effective campaign than they have carried on to date if they hope to carry the state...
...thirds to one-half of those voting was the only measure that lost. The most yeses, 1091, to only 196 no's, went to the amendment putting representation to the Council on a House basis. The proposal to have eight Council members appointed by the Masters received the slimmest margin...
Chub Newell's perfect placement conversion in the third quarter provided the margin of victory after halfback Bob Hunter had raced 30 yards through the center of the Tufts defense...
...Narrow Margin. But the abolitionists railed louder than ever; pretty young Delegate June Hay derided the committee report as a mere excuse for Laborites who send their own children to private schools. Slyly, onetime Defense Minister Emanuel Shinwell dug at Hugh Gaitskell and other private-school men among the platform-sitters : "I wish I had gone to one of these schools; there is no saying how far I would have gone...
When the proxy vote came, it was close: 3,067,000 in favor of abolishing private schools, 3,544,000 against. Then, by a wide margin, the conference approved the committee report, which urges raising the compulsory school age from 15 to 16, seeks to do away with the rigorous examinations that now decide the educational future of most British children at the age of eleven...