Word: randomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mayor Sullivan would not predict to whom the second choices of his thousand-odd surplus votes would go. Under proportional representation, votes for losing candidates and ballots chosen at random from the surplus votes of a winning candidate are given to the voter's second choice...
LAST TALES (341 pp.)-Isak Dinesen-Random House...
...great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that, from our very prison, we should draw from our own selves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness...
ATLAS SHRUGGED (1,168 pp.)-Ayn Rand-Random House...
...moustache, Mr. Cairnie usually sits in the far corner of a well-worn leather couch, skimming a catalogue or perhaps talking to a tutor, a Cambridge poet, or a student he knows well. His books, most of them first editions, stand in wall shelves or lie scattered at random on a large table in the center of the room. A shiny blue Anchor Books stand adds the one note of trimness and order to the place...