Word: polled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first U.S. poll tax on voters, a ten-shilling levy enacted by New Hampshire in 1784, did away with property qualifications for voting, thus served as an important halfway step to full suffrage. Though almost all the states abandoned even this vestige of moneyed privilege before the Civil War, Southern legislatures subsequently revived it as a device to disfranchise the Negro...
Appropriately, Heath's new show of firmness came as the Gallup poll reported, for the first time since he took over, a slump in Labor's standing, halving the margin of their lead over the Conservatives to 4½%. While Wilson has been preoccupied with foreign affairs, mainly the Rhodesian crisis, the electorate has been increasingly nagged at home: increases in bread prices, wage disputes, inadequate gas supplies during winter cold spells, power failures. This week Parliament reconvenes, and the minor grievances at home will provide the Tories with fresh ammunition. This week, too, voters in Hull...
Salerno, a WHRB disc-jockey, is the grand prize winner in a nation-wide Jazz Poll Contest sponsored by Playboy. The contest, open to hundreds of disc-jockeys across the country, offered as but prize a weekend with one of Playboy's fold out paper dolls...
...contest was linked to Playboy's annual Jazz Poll in which its readers are asked to select the top jazz musicians of the year. The balloting results in the selection of a hypothetical big band, made up of leading jazz artists, as well as the top instrumental and vocal LP's of 1965 and three outstanding jazz personalities to be enshrined in Play Jazz Hall of Fame...
Disc-jockeys were asked to predict the outcome of the reader poll. They had to name the top artists and guess the order of their popularity. Salerno's choices most nearly conformed to the results of the reader poll...