Word: upshot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Concurrent elections for an assembly to write a new constitution produced some possibly troublesome opposition for the future-not from the well-beaten Communists, but from ambitious politicos of the extreme right wing. ¶ Honduras went anxiously to the polls, fearing armed revolution as the likely upshot of a three-way presidential race that looked like a three-way standoff. But Ramon Villeda Morales, a socially prominent pediatrician and a pro-U.S. liberal, got 48% of the vote. Because he missed an absolute majority, a newly elected Congress must choose the next President, but the talk of revolt dwindled...
...board decided to close the schools, arranged a meeting with the State Board of Education to find out what it should do next. Upshot of the meeting was still more confusion. The state board blamed the local board for not having consulted it earlier, and the Milford members resigned in a huff. As for the eleven Negroes, the state board ruled they should remain. At week's end the schools of Milford were planning to open once again, with no one knowing what to expect...
...point of the football dominated fall came with a headline on a fake CRIMSON to the effect that Princeton football coach Roper had died during the game with Harvard. This fraud issue greeted the 54,000 fans packed into the Stadium after the Tiger had convincingly beaten Harvard. The upshot of the affair was that Princeton formally, and with the wounded pride which comes with unprovoked criticism, severed athletic connections with Harvard...
...settle scary rumors that fluorides added to drinking water (to protect the teeth of the young from decay) may have harmful effects, the U.S. Public Health Service compared death rates and causes in cities with and without fluorides in their water. The upshot: no difference...
...until the East-West conference approach had been exhausted (TIME. July 20). Upshot: the Big Three kept proposing conferences to the Russians, and the French kept stalling on EDC while awaiting results of the proposals...