Word: polls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...withering bons mots might actually be best suited to another stage, and in 1942 she was elected Connecticut's first Congresswoman. Inevitably, those last two syllables dogged her in the largely all-male preserve of Washington, and her attempts to be taken seriously were not assisted by a typical poll that crowned her "the second best pair of legs in the country...
...Republican National Convention; receiving an Oscar nomination in 1949 for her original story for the gentle comedy Come to the Stable, about two nuns setting up a hospital for children; and, in 1952, making 47 separate radio and TV appearances on behalf of Dwight Eisenhower. A 1953 Gallup poll showed that she was, after Eleanor Roosevelt, Queen Elizabeth II and Mamie Eisenhower, the most admired woman in the world...
Despite the dean's ruling, after his announcement the class participated in a straw poll in which 13 of the 14 students attending sided with the professor, Jacobi said...
Both Bloom and Houn have won critical acclaim in their fields. Bloom recently won the "Downbeat" magazine critics' poll for the saxophone and has been compared to soprano sax masters John Coltrane and Wayne Shorter...
...National Scene: Following a pair of wins over B.U. and Cornell this past week, Harvard moved up to fifth place in the Soccer America poll, and sixth in the Intercollegiate Soccer Association rankings--its highest rating all season. The Crimson's closest Ivy competitor is Columbia, ranked sixth and tenth, respectively...