Word: lopsidedness
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> Passed, by a 377-21 vote in the House, an expanded vocational education bill aimed at giving job training to some 21 million youths who will flood the labor market without college degrees during the rest of the 1960s. The measure, which next goes to the Senate, would increase the...
But what thwarts the President's wishes on Capitol Hill is not so much Republican unity as Democratic disunity. There are lopsided Democratic majorities in both houses: 67 to 33 in the Senate and 256 to 178 in the House (one seat, last held by a Democrat, is vacant...
The Kennedy campaign to gather Negro votes was spectacularly successful. By statisticians' reckonings, Nixon got more non-Negro votes than Kennedy. Kennedy's margin of victory derived from his lopsided majorities in Negro districts. Negro votes accounted for his capture of at least three close states, New Jersey...
Doesn't think Clay is so superduper, but he was clearly outclassed. Clay did a spot of sightseeing; Buckingham Palace, he allowed, was "a swell pad. I think I'd like to have a place like that." At Gieves of Bond Street, outfitters to His Royal Highness the...
Smooth & Scatty. Infractions of etiquette upset her. Vulgarity makes her eyes flash. "I am not an intolerant woman, but I abominate stupidity," she says. Her withering stare could reduce a rabid dog to foaming jelly. She smiles lopsidedly at absurd questions. She gives lopsided answers too. Is she eccentric? "I...