Word: lopsidedness
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Pungent Prose. Almost as startling as Dirksen's solo was a speech by Majority Whip Russell Long, who rose to attack another amendment that would have granted Governors the right to veto community-action programs only. Giving the South's segregationist Governors such lopsided veto power over anti...
There were no cots in the cloakrooms, no pajama-clad Senators rubbing sleep from their eyes as quorum bells clanged in the middle of the night, no filibustering recitals of recipes for chicken gumbo and shrimp jambalaya. There was just a straightforward, rather lackluster debate that was cut off after...
They were the words of a winner-which Tshombe certainly was. With the voting complete at last, his Conaco electoral alliance seemed certain of a landslide majority in the Congo's 166-seat National Assembly. Though many votes were still uncounted, Moise had swept areas once hostile to him...
The score was lopsided, but Harvard had its roughest afternoon of the season, with the exception of the Princeton match.
The final House vote was 257 to 165. but not even that lopsided tally was the true measure of the Democratic victory-or the Republican defeat. The new G.O.P. floor leader, Michigan's Gerald Ford, seeking to create a more positive party image, has announced a policy of "constructive...