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Word: recounting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...everywhere the "fraud law") was so unpopular, the risks and difficulties of trying to oust 70 well-entrenched and improperly seated Communists from power so great, that the Christian Democrats feared to press their legal right, and concealed their own triumph. To this day. the facts of the ballot recount have not been mentioned in any Italian newspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Illness in the Family | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

...perhaps the most damning criticism of Sabrina Fair is a brief recount of the plot. Sabrina Fairchild, daughter of the chauffer of the sophisticated Larrabee family, comes home from five years in Paris. After the French diplomatic whirl, living over a Long Island garage strikes her as a bit drab. When Sabrina finds an out by falling in love with a Larrabee son, there is the immense barrier of his wealth and her poverty. But not for long...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, | Title: Sabrina Fair | 10/16/1953 | See Source »

...election was temporarily complicated when a three-way tie for ninth place occurred, but Marshall Station Harris of Miami and Kirkland House was eliminated by one vote in a recount...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: O' Connor Tops Senior Vote For '53 Class Day Positions | 3/19/1953 | See Source »

...closest races for the House was finally decided, subject to demands for a recount. In Colorado, Democrat Wayne N. Aspinwall was re-elected over Republican State Senator Howard Shults, 39,676 votes to 39,647-a majority of exactly 29. Current breakdown of the new House: Republicans, 221; Democrats, 212; Independent, 1; one seat vacant (since the death, two days after Election Day, of Illinois' Democrat Adolph J. Sabath-TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: One Month After | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

...official count in New Mexico put Democratic Senator Dennis Chavez 5,071 votes ahead of Republican Patrick J. Hurley, who was still demanding a recount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: One Month After | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

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