Word: poll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with 10 out of 25 seats: the Labor Front, another Westernized party, endorsed by Clement Attlee's Socialists in Britain, which stands for mild socialism and pitches its appeal to the industrial workers, who are mostly Indians. The parties that had stirred the most anxious interest before the poll finished up as also-rans: the Communist-supported People's Action Party and the well-heeled, neutralist Democratic Party, both of which appealed almost exclusively to Singapore's predominant (80%) community of overseas Chinese...
Signed: RRMcC. Colonel McCormick's real journalistic achievements were often lost in the tidal waves of vituperation that crashed around (but never engulfed) his tower fortress on North Michigan Avenue. In a 1936 poll of Washington correspondents, the Tribune was placed among the "least fair and reliable" newspapers in the U.S.; others denounced it as a "ceaseless drip of poison...
Claverly Hall, once a Mount Auburn St. Siberia, has risen to new popularity this year. A large percentage of the students now living there will remain next fall, a spot poll indicated yesterday...
...growing because the Tories plan to hold a general election this year-and they want Eden to lead them. With the Laborites bitterly divided over Rebel Aneurin Bevan (see below), the chances of a Tory victory appear greater than they have been in years. The most recent Gallup poll in the London News Chronicle gives Labor 44½% of the vote (a decline of almost 3% since last November), compared with 46½% for the government. This is enough, say the party managers, to increase the Tory majority in Commons from 19 to possibly...
...bordered expose is accompanied by a photograph of the results of a poll given to the wives of 365 Harvard graduates of the Class of 1929 during their 25th reunion ceremonies last June. In contradiction to the author's conclusions, 31 percent of the wives said "yes" to the question, "Do you consider your husband completely satisfactory as a lover...