Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...citizen most likely to go to the polls next Nov. 7 is an upper-income Northern male. He is college-educated and over 40, Catholic or Jewish in religion. About one-third of the people eligible to vote, enough to swing the election, will not go to the polls. Such are the predictions made by two Denver National Opinion Research Center pollsters, Gordon M. Connelly and Harry H. Field, writing in the Summer issue of Public Opinion Quarterly...
...Economic status (upper fourth, 84%; lowest fourth, 53%) was even more indicative than education. Citizens with plenty of money but only grade-school education, voted 13% more heavily than those with a college diploma but low income...
...barge is under fire. The men in it, crouched low, show a physical, animal restlessness more revealing-and far more complex-than any manifestation of pure fear. Beyond the bow of the barge, wavering with the motion of the water, and terrifyingly close, loom the upper floors of bleak Norman seaside houses. The barge opens its mouth. Not in a neat, eager, clattering rush as people have sometimes imagined, but wretchedly, one by one, crabwise the crouching men disembark, hip-deep, and begin to wade ashore. Their officer, at the blunt bow, stands erect and unprotected...
...convinces himself, at least, that he's doing the best he can. The point is that he exercises power. . . . His cronies are the bankers, the manufacturers, the utility operators, the department-store tycoons. . . . The ideas he absorbs and the attitudes he reflects are those of the well-heeled upper crust...
...plus one, the Zoological Society's council, which runs the Regent's Park Zoo, decided to build a new elephant house, put the parrots on its upper floor, move the insect collection to the second floor of the new antelope house. At midweek the unruffled London Times continued to devote its front page to want ads. But the "Thunderer" made a big concession to big news, put a tiny headline at the upper right corner of Page One: GREAT ASSAULT GOING WELL...