Word: unites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always a better way of doing almost anything." He kept finding it. An inveterate fisherman, he contrived a one-man kickless harpoon gun to spear whales; a window-shopper, he invented a one-piece display lamp and reflector for shopkeepers, then founded a successful electric company to produce the unit, though he admittedly did not know the difference between an ohm and a kilowatt. He even found time to write a book on wildflowers...
Lamont's air conditioning unit went into high gear for the second straight day and is expected to be used today...
...unit, which doesn't usually scrimmage on Mondays anyway, ran through signal drills and plays. Due perhaps to the unseasonal heat and humidity, or possibly because of the squad's fine showing at Ithaca, both the "B" and "C" elevens were likewise excused from heavy contact work...
...unit system decides primaries (the only real elections in one-party Georgia) by counties instead of total popular vote. The eight largest counties cast six votes each, the 30 next-largest four votes, and the remaining 121 counties two votes. Designed to prevent city voters from overpowering the farmer, the system achieves an opposite effect: the farmers overpower the cities. Example: the total of 1,996 voters registered in Chattahoochee, Quitman and Echols Counties, at two unit votes per county, can offset 125,000 in six-vote Fulton County (Atlanta). Since candidates can win by carrying 103 small counties...
...friends' pleas, Walter George made a painful decision. He withdrew before the primary, accepted a post as Dwight Eisenhower's ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Herman stomped over Old Foe Melvin Thompson with a 376,000 majority and a grand slam of the county unit votes...