Word: turnout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dwyer as he abruptly bowed out last week as mayor of New York. Grover Whalen, the man with the carnation in his buttonhole who officiates at the city's ceremonial greetings, turned himself inside out and whipped up a ceremonial farewell. All that was missing was a turnout of a few million New Yorkers...
Never before had a New York cop gotten such a turnout-not even the late Police Commissioner Lewis Valentine nor any policeman killed in line of duty...
Eliot House will play host to the Class of 1915 as it marks its thirty-fifth reunion. In case the turnout is larger than the anticipated 300, the Law School dormitories will take care of the overflow. No students will be displaced from the Houses to make room for the incoming alumni...
Last week, in a record-breaking turnout, Graham won a precarious victory. He polled 295,000 votes to 245,000 for Corporation Lawyer Willis Smith. But Robert R. .("Buncombe Bob") Reynolds and a pig breeder named Olla Ray Boyd had polled a total of 62,000 votes between them-enough to deny Graham a majority and to force a runoff next month if Smith demanded it. Smith probably would...
Miss Newman also expressed surprise at the large turnout of graduate students. Because of the number of girls participating, the Health Service plans to hold an X-ray campaign every two years...