Word: turning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philippines. As the voters entered the rickety, paper-covered polling booths they glanced nervously at the carbine-carrying, khaki-clad youths who lounged ominously outside; they were members of the 1,500-strong "special police" hired by provincial Governor Rafael Lacson to make sure that the election would turn out the way he wanted it. Police carried off ballot boxes to his home an hour before the polls closed; some ballots had been marked and laid away two weeks before...
Last week 46-year-old Missionary Aylward fingered her Chinese passport. "China is my home," she said. "I'll go back to China even if they turn out every foreigner. You see, I am Chinese...
...this is the Harvard-Yale game, the one in which they throw away the book. It may even turn out to be a 0 to 0 tie. The Crimson must win today to have any kind of a season record. But Levi Jackson inspired Yale to a second half comeback against Princeton, and he may pull it off again against the Crimson...
...dial, but the thin vertical pointer only crossed quick pulses of raucous sound; then he caught one of the noise-streams and stopped to listen. "Let's switch down to the field now and liear the Harvard Band. . ." Vag snickered. He had better things to do. He started to turn it off, but then stopped. He might as well hear the score. There was a loud caw from the radio at the kickoff. Vag paused for a moment, clutching the book in his hand, and jumped to his feet. He held the book at arm's length, released...
...Dinners to life in some of the Houses in recent years. For four years Leverett House has been gathering one or another group of its twenty-three fields of concentration together once a week for sherry, dinner, and a bull-session with some outstanding men in the field. The turn out has always been good enough to warrant four or five meetings of each field a term...