Word: recounting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Though a recount was under way this week, Democrat Robert Tiernan had apparently held the district for his party. But his plurality at week's end was so slight-410 votes out of 113,500 cast-that defeated Republican James DiPrete Jr. (rhymes with street) and his supporters sounded more jubilant than the winners. And with reason...
...votes to Republican Walter Hickel, 2) de-conceded after Hickel's lead shrank, but 3) refused to re-concede when the final unofficial count gave Hickel a margin of 887 votes. At week's end the first official canvass of returns was incomplete and the inevitable recount not yet begun. Election authorities hoped to finish...
...Calvin Rampton did not have two more years to serve. Of all the West's Democratic gubernatorial candidates, only Incumbent John Burns in Hawaii survived the pervasive Republican wind. Another possible Democratic winner is Alaska's William Egan, who withdrew an early concession in hopes that a recount and a tally of absentee ballots would return him to office...
...Rolvaag won by 91 votes out of more than 1,200,000 cast -- and that was after a four-month recount. The victory soured as soon as Minnesotans became convinced that the Democratic charges about Highway 35 were fabricated. Rolvaag's showing in public opinion polls was abysmal -- often fewer than 40 per cent indicated approval...
...play. On a bleacher-sloped stage, the survivors and the accused confront not so much each other as their own benumbed memories of demonic events. The accused deny all responsibility, using the familiar argument that they were merely carrying out orders. The survivors, like men risen from the Inferno, recount horrors that, however familiar they may have become, still beggar the imagination with the terrible knowledge of what man can do to man. Those who lived draw word pictures of those who died: women whose wombs were injected with cement till they perished, naked men who were beaten bloody...