Word: polled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...along to ask for a tax increase but has held off so as to get himself in the position of being urged to ask for one. If he feels it necessary to act, all the talk has so thoroughly prepared Americans for a tax increase that, according to one poll, four of every five citizens fully expect one soon...
Acting on a plea from five Virginia Negroes, the Supreme Court last week outlawed the poll tax, one of America's first and last barriers to full Negro suffrage. Though only four states-Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama and Texas-still retained the tax for state elections*(the 24th Amendment barred it in federal elections), it was nonetheless an effective deterrent to voting for many Southern Negroes...
...ruling comes in time for the spring primaries, and initially will have its most significant impact in Alabama, where thousands of Negroes registered under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 have not paid the poll tax in anticipation of the court's ruling. Basing its decision on the "equal protection" clause of the 14th Amendment, the court declared that wealth "has no relation to voting qualifications. The right to vote is too precious, too fundamental to be so burdened or conditioned...
...week, there were predictions that Harold Wilson and his Laborites would win by 120 seats or more in the 630-seat House of Commons. Wilson's aides were talking less ambitiously of perhaps a 50-seat majority. They feared that Labor supporters might be so mesmerized by the poll predictions that they would stay away from the polls in large numbers out of sheer apathy. If that happened, the Tories might indeed turn the tide in marginal districts and, at least, avert a Labor landslide. By any pollster's calculations, however, victory seemed beyond the Tories' reach...
Freed from the frenzied setting of his stage shows, Brown is heard to best advantage on records. His last two releases sold over 1,000,000 copies each, and on Billboard's campus popularity poll he ranks just behind Bob Dylan. His rise in the mass market gives a sign that "race music" is perhaps at last becoming interracial...