Word: recounting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many involved hoped the dramatic walkout signaled the end of the bitter battle over "the bloody Eighth," the Indiana district whose tempestuously disputed seat was finally awarded to Democrat Frank McCloskey by the House last week. After a careful recount monitored by two Democrats and one Republican, McCloskey finished in front by four votes out of 234,055 counted. The House then quashed a Republican move for a new election. While the absent Republicans held a news conference on the steps of the Capitol, Democrats remained behind to give McCloskey a standing ovation and witness his swearing...
...trouble began on election night last November, when it appeared that McCloskey had defeated McIntyre by 72 votes. But when a partial recount showed McIntyre with a 34-vote lead, Indiana's Republican secretary of state sent an official certification of his victory to Washington. As Congress convened in January, another recount was under way, and the House leadership refused to swear in McIntyre. Finally, a House task force of two Democrats and one Republican was assigned to oversee another recount. It took more than just an adding machine: at the heart of the dispute was a batch of absentee...
...Saxaquine of the Quenelux held sway, Arthur Dent awoke one morning in his modest home west of London to learn from a visiting extraterrestrial that the earth was about to be demolished. It had to make way for a hyperspace bypass. What happened next is too horrible to recount, but several hundred thousand inhabitants of the planet earth are familiar with the tale. That is a conservative estimate of the audience for Douglas Adams' 1979 luna tic masterpiece, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a 1980 sequel, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, and a 1982 sequel...
...seven days during the past two weeks, TIME Correspondent David Halevy took the stand in a federal courtroom in Manhattan to recount in vivid detail what he saw and heard-and felt and believed-while he covered the ravaged precincts of Beirut and the troubled ruling circles of Israel before and after the 1982 massacre. Halevy's highly personal account was required because his credibility and state of mind are principal issues in a $50 million libel suit brought by former Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon against TIME...
Dropkin added, "The recount is laying the foundation for a court decision for a new election...