Word: recounts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reminiscent of William F. Buckley Jr., the elegantly acerbic editor of National Review, who campaigned four years ago as a Conservative candidate for mayor of New York. Asked what he would do if elected, Buckley replied, "Demand a recount...
...final strike vote ended a climactic impasse between students favoring a strike until the demands are met an others who supported different strike tactics or no strike at all. A vote recount of the vote on a strike until the demands are met showed that students were split by only 16 votes...
...present what he knew of Hammarskjold in an attempt to "answer some of the questions too often asked me." What Bo Beskow has written is not a biography of Hammarskjold, not even an account of Hammarskjold's life during the years Beskow knew him; it makes no attempt to recount the man's career, except when it impinges upon Beskow's private story. Perhaps even Beskow's term for his book, "a portrait," is incorrect, because one does not begin to get, even at a single point in time, a full picture of the man. It is obvious that Beskow...
When four years old, Turner was able to recount events that occurred before his birth, events that he could not possibly have known by normally explainable means. Since black people believed in the efficacy of the spirit world, this act established a large amount of respect in the minds of all those blacks who heard of it. Turner was well on his way to leadership in the black community before he was five years...
...running gag in Maryland throughout the presidential campaign had it that if Hubert Humphrey won the election, local Democrats would immediately demand a recount. For the Democrats were well aware that when the Republican Party won the White House, it lost the statehouse. When Vice President-elect Spiro Agnew resigns his governorship some time after the Electoral College makes his election official on Dec. 16, Maryland's general assembly is certain to choose a Democrat to succeed him for the remaining two years of his four-year term...