Word: portion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eisenhower himself carried all 11 Western states, but while his portion of the popular vote was rising in the country as a whole from 55.1 percent in the 1952 election to 57.3 percent in '56, it dropped in the West from 57.3 percent to 56.3 percent. The West was the only region in the country which like Ike less after four years. The President's decline was most marked in Idaho and Oregon, in both of which his percentage of the popular vote slipped about five percent...
...before-for reasons that Hiss is still at a loss to explain. The House Committee, Hiss goes on, had a "political stake" in finding a Communist spy; the FBI, investigating the case, became "overzealous." The federal grand jury that indicted Hiss was stampeded by the committee and by "that portion of the public inflamed by the sensational press"; the man who prosecuted him (Thomas F. Murphy, now a U.S. district judge) outrageously "exploited the fear of Communism and the public loathing of Communists...
Jordan explained that the increase refers to the board, rather than the room portion of the dormitory rates, and is principally due to increase in salaries of employees responsible for food preparation...
...article. I have also thoroughly enjoyed your symbolic cover composition and recognized the "scroll fragment," having identified and translated this document myself in 1948. I admire the skill of Artist Bohrod in being able to apply the Habakkuk commentary (whose photographic plates were published in 1950), hack out a portion of it, crumple it and tint it in simulating a scroll fragment...
...Crimson beat Brandeis 27 to 8 in a three-ring circus that saw six pitchers, including a major portion of the Brandeis outfield, parade across the mound in a vain attempt to control a 20-hit Harvard attack which included four home runs, a triple, and three doubles. It was often entertaining. But with the fine Holy Cross game only a day in the past, one had trouble calling it baseball...