Word: lopsidedness
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First Realization. On the home front, realization came quickly to Jack Kennedy that not everything was going to come up roses. The 87th Congress had convened with lopsided Democratic majorities-but those majorities were deceptive, particularly in the House of Representatives, where conservative Democrats (mostly from the South) and Republicans...
The lopsided score merely hinted at the humiliation of Italy's defeat. Not until the deciding first three matches were over did bumbling Nicola Pietrangeli and Orlando Sirola cadge a single set from their relentless Aussie tormentors. The crucial doubles match lasted only an hour; Pietrangeli and Sirola won...
Many other papers wondered why the President had not simply fired Bowles instead of finding him a new job as White House representative in Latin American, African and Asian affairs. "Why still keep him around to mess things up?" demanded the New York Daily News, which had repeatedly hollered for...
Bricks for Jade. On the eve of the introduction of the commune system, Li Fu-chun warned that the economy was getting lopsided. Now, he said, there should be concentration on the farm problem. He was strongly supported by his fellow economists. One of them, hiding behind a pseudonym, wrote...
In Louisville, where Democrats had controlled the city government for 28 years, Republicans reinvoked an old slogan: "It's time for a change." As it happened, it worked. Last week, over the opposition of the Louisville Courier-Journal and despite a lopsided Democratic registration superiority, the voters in Kentucky...