Word: counting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Place to Settle. Meanwhile, encouraged by vociferous royalists back home, the young count kept on with his pretending, established a newspaper and published a spate of books and essays on politics...
...still unfinished, the nation was acting as apprehensive as a housewife getting a new hairdo. Many a city had a horrible premonition that it wasn't going to look as flashy as it had hoped when it finally got to the mirror. The alarm over a short count was greatest on the West Coast; city officials were using everything but moose calls and native beaters to get every last bum and baby located, quizzed and accounted...
...Francisco, mortally afraid that it would be credited with fewer than the 827,000 inhabitants who were officially counted during a special census in 1945, was sending cops, firemen, and meter readers out to track down uncounted citizens. Seattle, which has 508,096 names in its city directory, had a fevered hunch that the census count would be less than a half million (1940 pop. 368,000). Its city council appropriated $800 to provide enumerators with free bus fares. Idaho Falls cried that it had been robbed by census-takers of 15% of its population...
Cold War or Hot War. The British would obviously not disband their infantry and rely entirely on the French, nor would they sink the Royal Navy and count on the U.S. fleet. Both the British and the French would need some all-round forces to maintain their overseas possessions. Moreover, the plan which the Foreign Ministers approved had yet to be ratified by their governments and parliaments. Yet a pattern of efficient, integrated defense had at last been laid down. The London plan constituted progress unthinkable five years ago. That fact was promptly acknowledged by the Red press, which sputtered...
...geographers' latest count, there are seven continents': North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and Antarctica. But many Europeans are taught that there are only five, a count which regards North and South America as one continent and ignores Antarctica. Some geographers have taken revenge on the Europeans for this peremptory position by lumping Europe in with Asia as a single Eurasian continent...