Word: whoever
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reorganizing the Christian Democratic Party, was largely responsible for the 1.5 million new votes and ten new Chamber seats that the party won in May. But the Christian Democrats failed to win the absolute majority of seats that would have permitted them to govern without help from other parties. Whoever became Premier would have to turn left or right for 26 more votes...
...Whoever it was hung up. WMGM complained to the FCC, but admitted that it could not even try to finger the hoaxer. WINS played it cool. Said a station spokesman: "It was definitely not anyone here, although I've seen a lot of people walking around smirking. It sure has livened up things for us. We've been announcing 'Vive la WINS' all day and even giving the time in French...
...brew out of silver-plated cups. They dressed the queen in her best flowered skirt, put shiny new shoes on her feet, ringed her wrists and fingers with gold. Only a few minutes before, having received the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church, Queen Mimi had whispered, "Forgive whoever does wrong," and then closed her eyes forever...
...maneuver, and hampered by fewer enmities," the reader must put up with several pro-Smith absurdities for every analysis like this. For example, in March, 1931, "probably the thought crossed [Smith's] mind that he deserved another chance, but far more important was the insistence that the candidate, whoever he be, vindicate his own position and prove that the hatreds and prejudices of 1928 had been an aberration." This is at best a dubious measure of Smith's ambition...
...signs were that come election day, Strijdom's Nationalists, thanks to effective gerrymandering, would win something like their present majority (94 out of 159 seats) in South Africa's House of Assembly, even if, as last time, they do not get an actual majority of votes. But whoever won, it would make little real difference to the nation's 9,250,000 voteless Africans, who outnumber the whites three to one. For anyone who cherished the illusion that the Nationalists were unique in their commitment to white supremacy. Sir de Villiers Graaf, leader of the United Party...