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Word: slavs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voters after the defection over McGovern. The heavily Catholic Queens borough of New York City gave Carter a margin 10 per cent greater than Humphrey received in 1968. The South Side of Milwaukee was largely responsible for Carter's surprising win in Wisconsin; the mainly Polish, Lithuanian and South Slav voters of that area gave him a vote upwards of 55 per cent...

Author: By Seth Kaplan and James I. Kaplan, S | Title: Many Factors Figured in Carter's Win | 11/3/1976 | See Source »

...speaker could only be Woody Allen, disguised this time as Boris, a 19th century Slav. The label reads "Made in Czarist Russia," but the contents show Allen's familiar shlemiel ticket: the loser, surrounded by a world of hostile, if inanimate, objects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Baying Through Russia | 6/30/1975 | See Source »

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