Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus, on Election Day, thousands of farmers decided either to vote Democratic or to stay home. In the normally Republican counties of rural Illinois, the vote fell 150,000 below 1944, 400,000 below 1940. In Indiana, rural returns almost upset Dewey's earlier lead. In Iowa, the farmers assured Harry Truman's victory...
...bandwagon pressure of the public-opinion polls, which encouraged many waverers to vote for Underdog Truman just to slow up the expected Dewey landslide, and caused many overconfident Republicans to stay away from the polls entirely...
Home Secretary Chuter Ede was making plans to stay at home and get the news by telephone...
Though a bit shocked at the casual way Tacho switched Presidents, the U.S. State Department recognized the regime (TIME, May 17). Thus Somoza was in a position to buy U.S. warplanes and to start closing the lead gained by Guatemala's air force during his stay in the doghouse. He was also busily spreading the word that the Guatemalans, the Caribbean Legion and everybody else conspiring against him were Communists...
Said Manhattan Psychologist Anne Roe: doctors have spent too much time trying to find out why people get emotionally sick, and not enough time trying to find out why they stay emotionally well. Tests may show that a "patient" has a severe neurosis, but he may be prosperous and socially successful. Studying "normal" people, Dr. Roe admitted, has bored too many researchers...