Word: lopsidedness
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But the segregationists' battle was lost, and they knew it. The committee voted 10 to 5-with California Republican H. Allen Smith joining four Democrats in opposition-to send the bill to the House floor with a recommendation for approval. And next day, by a lopsided 289 to 126...
A lot of baseball games are won by lopsided scores, and 19 runs is a long way from a record. But such is the state of the New York Mets that when they score 19, fans all across the U.S. sit up and take notice, and newspapers print pictures of...
Brewster ended up taking the state's three westernmost counties, where the Negro population is small and civil rights are no problem. He also scored heavily in the well-to-do bedroom suburbs that skirt Washington. But his winning margin came from Baltimore's Jewish and Negro areas...
The first secret of Dirksen's success is the fact that the lopsided Senate Democratic majority is split every which way, while Old Ev can influence, if he cannot command, almost all his Republicans. Because of this, Dirksen can often provide the votes that a Democratic Administration needs for...
Since foreign imports to the U.S. remained steady while U.S. exports rose, the U.S. piled up a trade surplus in the three months that ended in February at an annual rate of $7 billion. This lopsided situation is unlikely to last indefinitely. A rise in prices in the U.S. could...