Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Florida, a battle of buses and ballots a yard wide...
Getting there proved only half the fun. Some voters were handed accordion-pleated paper ballots a yard wide that listed as many as 841 delegates without offering a clue as to which candidate each was backing. In Dade County, voters had to check off no fewer than 141 names but no more than 188 for their ballots to be valid. In each county, an independent organized labor slate further complicated the options...
...mounted several attacks. Only Blood's acrobatics in the net kept the visitors off the scoreboard. Blood raced repeatedly out of the goalmouth to smother dangerous crosses and soft shots. At 41:15 he made a miraculous save with a full length dive to block a low shot a yard off the foot of a URI forward. Moments later, Blood thwarted URI again leaping into mid-air to tip a soft free-kick wide...
...pressure finally produced a goal at 42:41 of the half as Rhode Island fullback Manuel Mercurio drilled a low shot into the near corner from the left side of the goal. A minute later Jose Rico smashed a 35-yard shot off the top of the crossbar and the future looked dim for Harvard...
Even so, voting will require considerable stamina. Some Democrats will have to travel 30 miles to a polling place -there is only one in each county -and wait up to two hours for their ballots, which can be a yard long and contain as many as 800 names. Just to make matters more complicated, the candidates will be listed in alphabetical order, with nothing to indicate whether they support Carter or Kennedy. As a result, each camp is passing out lists of delegates to supporters, so they will know how to mark their ballots...