Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tanganyika, due south of Kenya, Britain's Governor Sir Richard Turnbull announced constitutional changes giving Africans virtual home rule by late next year. Elections in September will be broadened to include more than 500,000 voters (v. 60,000 currently eligible), and 50 of the 71 seats in the Legislative Council will be open to candidates of any race, with ten reserved for white and eleven for Asians and Arabs. Since they represent 98.6% of the population, Africans will easily win control of the Legislature, and dominate the elected executive, the Ministerial Council (Britain will retain Defense, Finance, Foreign...
Besides these expected victories, only virtual domination of the second and third places in every race enabled the Crimson to outscore Springfield's first place winners...
About 1,300 Londoners witnessed the Chancellor's arrival in virtual silence. There were warm handshakes from Macmillan and other government ministers...
...prosperous farms, friendly campuses and towering skyscrapers, he barely bothered to look out the window. At week's end in San Luis Obispo, Calif., he turned the Marxist cliche around by complaining that the American "authorities" had not let him meet the real people, had kept him under virtual "house arrest...
...foreign competition, which have stiffened the stance of management toward the steelworkers' bid for higher wages. By last week, the fifth week of idleness for the biggest U.S. industry, these broad matters revolved around a little-known section of the steel contract that has brought negotiations to a virtual standstill. The section: the past-practices clause. Written into contracts since 1947, the clause jealously protects local working practices or customs that have existed regularly over a long period, in effect provides that if a man did a job one way several years ago, he is entitled...