Word: chagrined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...local officials. By the time civil rights partisans realized that this would gut the strongest part of the bill, Dixie Senators had rushed Kefauver's amendment through committee on a one-vote margin. (In the confusion, Colorado Democrat John Carroll voted with the Southerners to his subsequent chagrin, and Wisconsin Republican Alex Wiley could not be found to vote at all.) But on the Senate floor the Johnson-Dirksen team rallied their forces, smashed the amendment by a decisive 69-to-22 vote...