Word: polled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Describing Cassius as, "a detriment to the boxing world," WBA president Ed Lassman announced yesterday that he had asked the WBA Executive Committee to remove Clay's title and drop him from the heavyweight ratings. A poll of the Commissioners will be completed by Friday and Lassman has already declared "I am certain the title will be vacated...
Rush Hour Every Hour. In a recent poll of 317 colleges, Duke University found that only 5% of them ban all student cars. Apart from freshmen, who are usually forbidden to drive on campus, roughly one out of three U.S. collegians has a car. But the pattern varies widely. Miami is plagued with two-car students, while Purdue forbids freshmen and sophomores even to drive in the county around the campus. At well-heeled Northwestern, coeds tool to class in Cadillacs ("We've always had a high caliber of automobile here"). At Harvard, vehement Vespas grind like drunken dentists...
...year old cat from Miami. We talked about a Community Center program that he was in the process of designing, and the idea excited me. The voter registration program, you see, is not getting anybody registered...even in cases where there is no discrimination evident, the poll tax and literacy test are far too effective obstacles to get anything dramatic done.. We are just beginning to check the shell of submissiveness that this damned police state has built up over the past few centuries and the enemy is just getting sophisticated enough to use his economic control...
...province of Zielona Gora, workers lost 130,000 man-hours in a recent three-month period because of absenteeism, much of it "from the abuse of alcohol." Teen-age rowdyism is even more worrisome. One newspaper said 80% of Polish hooliganism could be traced to alcohol, while a Gdansk poll turned up even more remarkable statistics: among 5,000 youngsters aged 7 to 14, as many as 42% drank occasionally and 20% frequently...
...second person in the U.S. to own a registered Belgian Malinois, whose real name, le Malinois, chien de berger a poll court fauve charbonne, is the longest in dogdom. Apartment dwellers-or at least their neighbors-will favor the Basenji, a terrier-sized hunting dog once kept by the Egyptian pharaohs that never barks. But he whines, groans and gargles, and when happy makes a noise described as "a cross between a croon and a yodel." As for burglars-packs of Basenjis are used to hunt gorillas in their native Africa...