Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...votes, and the remaining 121 counties two votes. Designed to prevent city voters from overpowering the farmer, the system achieves an opposite effect: the farmers overpower the cities. Example: the total of 1,996 voters registered in Chattahoochee, Quitman and Echols Counties, at two unit votes per county, can offset 125,000 in six-vote Fulton County (Atlanta). Since candidates can win by carrying 103 small counties, the wisest ignore the cities, woo the rural voters...
...tune of an old folk song that sometimes begins, "Hush, li'l baby, don' say a word, mamma's gonna buy you a mockin'-bird ..." A piece from Piece: Take off the goat-horns, Dodgers, that egret/which two very fine base-stealers can offset./ You've got plenty: Jackie Robinson/and Campy and big Newk, and Dodgerdom again/watching everything you do. You won last year. Come...
...also began its boom soon after World War II. Today in Manhattan The Contemporaries Graphic Art Center has in constant use most of the 90-odd lithographic stones it rounded up from old commercial houses Which since the turn of the century have shifted to zinc and offset printing...
...charging Crimson line offset a tight, yet inexperienced Amherst defense Saturday, enabling the varsity soccer team to take its second straight match, 3 to 2, in overtime. The seasoned Crimson forwards looked especially good in the clutch, and provided the margin in a well-played contest...
...Colorado, Harry Truman's Agriculture Secretary Charles F. Brannan, author of the direct-subsidy, surplus-building Brannan Plan, discovered that his popularity with parity-conscious wheat growers and other farmers was not enough to offset ex-Representative John A. Carroll's edge in Carroll's home city of Denver, lost the Democratic senatorial nomination to Carroll 60,494 to 62,391. Carroll, defeated in the 1954 Senate race, faces ex-Governor Dan Thornton, 45, ardent Ikeman, in November...