Word: polled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign started. A dozen U.S. Senators, led by Robert Kennedy and Jacob Javits, echoed their claim that the election campaign was a "farce" and a "charade." It was to counter such senatorial critics that President Johnson hastily assembled 22 U.S. observers and dispatched them to Viet Nam as poll watchers...
Courageous Choice. On election day, 4.7 million South Vietnamese flocked to 8,800 red-and-yellow-bannered polling stations throughout the narrow nation. They constituted a remarkable 83% of the registered voters. Even though no attempt was made to register or poll those people Irving in Viet Cong-dominated regions, the total represented 60% of South Viet Nam's voting-age population-surprisingly close to the 63% turnout of U.S. voters in the 1964 U.S. presidential election. By any measure, it was an impressive and meaningful ballot cast in favor of representative government. Though many of the voters went...
...neither a quick nor an easy process. Voting in Saigon's baroque city hall, Thieu timed himself and found it took three minutes. Candidate Huong nearly invalidated his own vote, and was caught just in time by a peeking poll watcher as he started to insert his ballot in the box without its envelope...
...value-defining courses that help put life in broad perspective. This often takes the form of a demand for religious studies. At student request, Rutgers will offer a religion major for the first time this year, while at the University of Wisconsin's Milwaukee campus a student-organized poll led to regent approval of a new Department of Religious Studies. A similar desire for scanning a broader scene led engineering students at Claremont's Harvey Mudd College to secure a humanities course on "man, science and society...
...abolished in the state primary schools, many British educators stoutly defend the practice as essential to classroom decorum. Of 3,000 delegates at a National Head Teachers Conference this spring, only two voted against caning; only one delegate did so at a national conference of schoolmasters. And a Gallup poll showed that public protesters are still outnumbered by those who favor the cane and strap. When the new school term opens this fall, British buttocks again will burn...