Word: turnout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...listeners raised umbrellas as rain began leaking through the roof. "I was told today that you needed rain," said Billy without batting an eye. "I am happy it is raining."_Billy remained happy throughout his stay in Paris. Although he did not draw a single capacity audience, the turnout was greater than he had expected. On his last night (he later left for a brief rest in Zurich before starting a tour of other European countries), he drew a crowd of 11,000. "We have fallen in love with the French people," he told them. "We like everything about...
Speaking to the largest turnout in the five-year history of the breakfast, Pusey asserted that the gathering was "further evidence of a strong desire for separate Christian churches to come together...
...Crimson won the annual Harvard-Dartmouth Slalom Saturday on Mount Washington, N.H., for the second straight year, as the much larger Harvard turnout of students, faculty, and alumni overcame an early Green advantage and triumphed, 757.8 seconds...
...past ten years cramming democracy down the throats of the Japanese with a G.I. boot, and have succeeded so well that they have mustered a 75.8% vote in the recent election. We should invite a Japanese democratization commission to the U.S. to teach us how we can boost our turnout from the puny 63% we mustered in the 1952 election...
Bursts of Applause. Few of Ottawa's many recent diplomatic visitors excited so much advance interest. Ever since he joined the Eisenhower Cabinet, Dulles and his policies have been the object of constant-and often critical-discussion among Canadian leaders. A full turnout of Ottawa officials met him at Uplands Airport. That afternoon a special meeting of the House and Senate Committees on External Affairs was called and Dulles, the first non-Canadian diplomat ever invited since the House committee was formed ten years ago, was asked to speak...