Word: stakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these issues could turn the election. To win, the Labour Party needs only thirty-five of the present Conservative seats. Since more than this number of seats were won in 1955 by less than 1,000 votes, the election is being decided not in the 630 seats at stake, but in about sixty marginal constituencies. A shift of less than 12,000 votes can make the difference...
...that Premier Khrushchev's disarmament proposal is "only propaganda." A tendency exists here, particularly in high governmental circles, to dismiss anything that emerges from Russian mouths as tainted and patently unacceptable. No one can object to care or even suspicion in considering Soviet proposals, especially with so much at stake, but in this case there is a strong chance that Khrushchev means business. If so, he must be taken seriously...
Thus, much was at stake as Landau took the mark against Oxford's Ian Taylor. already the upset victor in the 100 and 220. After one false start, Landau shot out of the blocks and opened up a two-yard lead on Taylor...
...peace . . . The ensuing period of time will be devoted to resuming normal existence, to emptying the camps and prisons, to permitting the return of exiles, to restoring the free play of individual and public liberties and to enabling the population to become fully aware of what is at stake . . . But what will this political destiny finally...
...from Rome, was disgruntled by the sharpness of the Vatican's order. "Rome could tell us to stand on our heads and of course we would," said one church official in Paris, "but even upside down we would hold fast to our own view on what is at stake here...