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Word: quietest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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Last week nine million West Germans in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia -which includes the Ruhr-went to the polls to elect a new state legislature. It was the second free election in Germany since the Nazis, and the quietest yet. By evening the voters, mostly miners and steelworkers, representing one-fourth of all voters in West Germany, had smashingly rejected both Communists and extreme right-wing Nationalist parties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Quiet Election | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

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