Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turnout was hearteningly big. Nearly 80% of West Germany's voters went to the polls. When all the ballots were counted, Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democrats were ahead with 7,357,579 votes and 139 out of 402 seats in the Bundestag. Kurt Schumacher's Socialists got 6,932,272 votes, 131 seats. The vote meant strong support for the Christian Democrats' free-enterprising ideas, a sharp swing to the right...
...Fechenheim, near Frankfurt, a worn-looking war widow puzzled over her ballot. An election official told an American bystander: "Under Hitler, the choice was simpler-each ballot had a big Ja and small Nein." A young man said: "The trouble is we do not really know what we are voting for. All the politicians talk about is what is wrong with the other parties and with the Allies. No one tells us how his party can end unemployment, how he can get us houses." The Germans were quick to pick up electioneering tricks. Outside one polling place well-scrubbed German...
...Democrats got 52 seats, trebling their best showing in earlier local contests. The extreme right-wing Deutsche Partei and the hotheaded Bavarian separatist Bayernpartei polled 17 seats each; local and splinter groups, mostly right-wing, gained 32 seats between them. The Communists were soundly beaten (6% of the total vote, 15 seats...
...disastrous war with Palestine. After he seized power (TIME, April 11), he shot no one and jailed only a few, but in his 4½ short months of dictatorship he made many enemies. He offended Moslem religious leaders when he proposed that women give up their veils, gain the vote; he alienated the wealthy because he raised taxes, the merchants because he lowered prices. Nationalists were sore because he gave concessions to the U.S. Trans-Arabian Pipeline Co. and signed an armistice with Israel...
Biologically, she was-and biology is good enough for Hollywood any time. Elizabeth soon got her first screen kiss in Julia Misbehaves and returned it charmingly; her fan mail climbed. Some Annapolis midshipmen were suddenly moved to vote her "The Girl We'd Abandon Ship For." Some Harvard boys added: "The Girl We'll Never Lampoon...