Word: consensus
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...quality Vic Donahey has in fullest measure: political sensitivity. He always ran to win. Thus when he retired from public life "for a much-needed rest and the preservation of my health," every political cynic in the U. S. recalled his perfect health, unkindly footnoted: "Rest from what?" Consensus was: "Honest Vic" thinks Ohio is lost to the Democrats this fall, whether or not Franklin Roosevelt runs...
William M. Layton, Jr. '43, who lives in Hollis, was quoted as saying, "There may be something in this ghost business." But the consensus is that Hollis is in for a snowball "Blitzkrieg" tonight...
...that business a pleasure. Since 1932 the New York World-Telegram has annually polled radio editors in the U. S. and Canada to find out whom & what they found most pleasurable on the air. Last Saturday, World-Telegram's, industrious Radio Editor Alton Cook scored up the 1939 consensus of about a hundred other radio editors...
...Rain, sleet, snow fell on the Western Front. Rivers rose two feet higher. Mud deepened. Despite continued German troop concentrations and systematic artillery fire, consensus of military observers was increasingly against any Big Push by land this winter...
Before nightfall Lewis' crack at Garner had become a national gag. Bibbers lifted highballs with happy cries of "Well, here goes, you whiskey-drinking, poker-playing, evil old man." Columnists' consensus was that old tomato-nosed John Garner now had the drinking and card-playing vote locked up solidly...