Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Wisconsin, the game grew rougher than ever. Humphrey sarcastically charged his "illustrious opponent" with the gravest Democratic sins-being "soft on Nixon" and hard for the policies of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson. The Wisconsin farmers in the audience cheered. In the closely contested Third District, where Humphrey was stumping, screwball anti-Catholic pamphlets showed up in the mails, ominously postmarked Hutchinson, Minn. (Humphrey's home state). Humphrey charged that it was a reverse plot to swing votes away from him by suggesting that his backers were bigoted...
...group of Stevenson fans): to author a series of speeches on U.S. high policy, which Adlai Stevenson will deliver mostly to university audiences. With such rhetoric on record, Stevenson will be well prepared, if more active Democratic candidates kill off one another, to accept the party call for the third consecutive time...
Five months after Labor's third straight election defeat, the party, rather than resolving its differences, had sunk so low that some British editorialists were asking seriously last week whether there would ever be another Labor government at all. Cock-a-hoop over two fresh by-election victories, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told a Tory rally that in view of "the folly, confusion and incompetence of our opponents," he might very well follow Sir Winston Churchill's example and resign his office after his 80th birthday-in 1974. To others, dedicated to the proposition that a lively Loyal...
...convert the disbelievers. As if to emphasize Labor's decline, for the first time in ten years the Tories won the seat in the industrial constituency of Brighouse and Spenborough in Yorkshire. And in another by-election in a dormitory suburb of London, the Labor candidate finished third behind a Tory and a Liberal...
...there were 42, and now he claims to have traced 212. Dr. Donohugh painted an alarming picture of what might happen in American Samoa by analogy with the flyspeck island of Nauru, where one leprosy victim landed in 1912, and by 1927 the disease had infected 750 people (one-third of the population). And in a recent survey in the Manua group of outer islands, 153 out of 1,521 people showed suspicious signs, and they were so marked in 52 cases that Dr. Donohugh thought he could diagnose leprosy on the spot...