Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once a candidate reaches one-tenth of the vote, the remainder of his ballots are transferred to the marked second choices and so on. Sometimes there are 30 candidates and a voter has the option of marking his preference all the way of the last name on the ballot. Understanda...
Wilcox succeeded the controversial and much-magligned R. Victor Jones. Jones resigned a year ago after a difficult year marked by a graduate student work stoppage.
YOU'VE ALL come a year too late. You missed it, or rather you missed them, the most colorful and bizarre members of the Harvard athletic cast. You have missed the unique and individualistic protagonists in the complex and immense Harvard sports drama, who in their brief and transient careers...
"An aggressor battalion has pushed a company to within three miles of Camp Wilson," said Colonel A.J. Brosco, 43, a criminal lawyer from Providence, R.I. "Give me the file marked confidential," he said to a captain. "Aerial photos taken this morning indicate a SAM location and a rudimentary airfield." "Excuse...
A grandson of Sigmund, Freud has long tickled Britons with his acerbic, urbane humor in print and on television talk shows. Though the contest in the Cambridgeshire constituency of Ely marked his debut in politics, he quickly found the field fertile for his brand of fun. When his Conservative opponent...