Word: polled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...camel and dugout canoe, through bleak lion country and rich tobacco fields, the electorate of Bechuanaland proceeded to the polls. Some were red-faced Afrikaner farmers in sports shirts and veldskoen; others were naked Kalahari bushmen, whose ways have not changed since they learned to paint on rocks 15,000 years ago. At the polling place-in some cases a tidy brick schoolhouse, in others a thatch-roofed hut beneath a twisted mopane tree-each voter received a handful of col ored, coin-size counters representing the candidates of five political parties. Cynics called it "the tiddlywinks poll," but when...
...surprise the Harvard basketball team selected Bill Bradley of Princeton as the best player to face them this season in a poll conducted last week...
...18th. Fastest of all: the twelfth (separate electoral vote for President and Vice President), which in 1804 set the record of 187 days. Slowest: the 22nd (limiting Presidents to two terms) which took almost four years to get the nod in 1951. Newest of all: the 24th (barring poll taxes in federal elections), ratified 13 months ago. The U.S. Constitution is so hedged against change, yet so open to new interpretation, that lawyers and scholars favor amending it only in extreme circumstances. Presidential disability may well be such a circumstance, but as Chief Justice Earl Warren cautions...
Watchers & Watcher-Watchers. The voting took place in union halls across the U.S.; ballots were hand-marked and handcounted. There were poll watchers and watchers who watched the poll watchers. As the counting continued, there were claims of foul from both sides. The 3,000 Steelworkers of Puerto Rico, for example, complained that the bundle they had expected to contain ballots brought only campaign propaganda mailed from Abel's office...
...random telephone poll yesterday of 30 Harvard and Radcliffe students, over forty per cent decided that they have had enough in Vietnam and the United States should pull out completely...