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Word: unites (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...Racketeer Frank Costello). The Texas delegation caucused. Albert Gore's Texas backers fought wildly, but the delegation was faced down by grim old Sam Rayburn. "Gentlemen," said Rayburn, "you can vote as you please-but Sam Rayburn is voting for Kennedy." Under the unit rule, Texas stood 56 for Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Wide-Open Winner | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

Oklakoma (28): Staying with Harriman under the unit rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: ADLAI'S GLORY ROAD | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

Maryland (18): Stevenson is almost certain to pick up Primary Winner Kefauver's 18 unit-rule votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: ADLAI'S GLORY ROAD | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

Tennessee (32): Now the unit-rule delegation need not even give Tennessean Kefauver a "courtesy" vote (though Estes is a convention delegate). Under the leadership of Governor Frank Clement, the convention keynoter, 32 for Stevenson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: ADLAI'S GLORY ROAD | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

Virginia (32): A probable early-ballot, unit-rule vote to Lyndon Johnson, with a later swing to Stevenson if the civil-rights plank seems satisfactory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: ADLAI'S GLORY ROAD | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

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