Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your excellent Essay [Sept. 20] concerning the failings of our Electoral College was most pointed, as far as it went. You cited three presidential elections, those of Jefferson-Burr, Clay-Adams-Jackson-Crawford and Hayes-Tilden, to illustrate your indictment of the college's utility. It is of interest that two of these elections and perhaps the course of American history were decided in each instance by the margin of a single vote. Adams won by the vote of General Stephen Van Rensselaer and Hayes by the 8-to-7 vote of an electoral commission that awarded...
...patrol car reported seeing a third person atop the crane after the pair descended, but after watching and calling for half an hour, the police decided the object was a rag. The patrol cars and hook and ladder truck then went their ways...
...were on the way to Wembley once in the van. We wrote on a piece of paper 'Which way to Wembley.' We spoke in a foreign language and pointed to map of Wales. Everybody went mad putting us right.... I still feel an urge to do that but you can't. It would be Beatles Play Tricks. This Will Give You a Laugh...
...typical fashion, Shaw went to the front early. By the mile mark he was joined by captain Doug Hardin, and the two of them held a slight lead over the top U-Mass trio and Providence pacesetter Marty Robb. Moving smoothly in contrasting running styles, Shaw and Hardin gradually cased away to a thirtyyard lead at the three-mile point...
...beginning of integration after the '54 decision was deceptively easy. Black children, brave and resisting hostile taunts, went to white schools. For a year, Southern school districts seemed beaten. No one imagined that "all deliberate speed" could mean a very long time, and individual school boards from Arkansas to South Carolina quietly let Negroes into classes...