Word: polled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate had resigned itself to a few more days of filibuster when suddenly there came a stillness-and then it was all over before anyone could say Appomattox. By a vote of 77-16, the Senate approved a constitutional amendment to abolish the poll tax for voting in federal elections...
...eleven states that put the poll tax on the books around the turn of the century, only five retain it-Alabama, Arkansas. Mississippi, Virginia and Texas...
...days the filibuster continued in friendly fashion. Then the Southerners ran out of words, and the sponsor of the amendment, Florida's Spessard Holland, rose to deliver the death blow. A Southern conservative, Holland had led the successful campaign to repeal the poll tax in his own state in 1937; since 1949 he has annually introduced an anti-poll-tax amendment in the Senate. Holland moved that the Senate take up a resolution to make a national monument of Alexander Hamilton's house in New York City...
When his motion was approved, Holland moved that the language of the anti-poll-tax amendment be substituted for the language of the Hamilton resolution...
Many of the 350 participating in the poll expressed vague notions such as "I felt like it" and "It seemed like a good idea," and most of them, "It's where my roommate wants to go," as their reasons. The fact that students in traditional Houses will be eligible to transfer to the tenth House when it is built perhaps influenced some of the choices...