Word: overridden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Breathitt County's Congressman, Carl D. Perkins, who, as chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, is responsible for all poverty legislation. Pushing for a two-year extension of the OEO authorization act, Perkins fears loss of badly needed Republican support if Nunn's veto is overridden. At the same time, he finds it politically necessary to back Mrs. Howell, whose support is an important ingredient to his own reelection...
...Dalton Overridden...
...Communist-minded Zanzibar without falling prey to the Reds, last year promoted a unique experiment in one-party elections: his Tanzania Africa National Union put up two candidates for each post, with the result that several of his own Cabinet ministers were defeated. Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta has overridden the intense tribal rival ries of the Luo and his own Kikuyu and made a national fetish out of harambee (togetherness), winning the good will of most white settlers in the bargain. Even the disappointments have not been total. The personal tyranny of Ghana's Nkrumah has been succeeded...
...only those patients they expected to pay higher-than-average fees, thus eliminating the possibility that an "unreasonable" excess might be tacked onto the bill of a patient who could not afford it. But when the question came to a vote in the house of delegates, the moderates were overridden and all A.M.A. doctors were urged-though not required-to bill every patient directly. The way some delegates saw it, the Government-preferred billing method somehow inserts Medicare into "the sacred doctor-patient relationship...
Chant D'Amour was not shown to the students of 4 because the staff deemed it irrelevant to the course. Its "blatant sexual imagery" (sic) was an additional complicating factor, though for the complaining student who visited the CRIMSON office in high dudgeon, this factor seems to have overridden any concern for the film's artistic merit or academic relevance. Would complaints have been forthcoming. I wonder, if showings of Cocteau's Orpheus or Kurosawa's Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail had been cancelled? The question of censorship, raised by the CRIMSON article, is not pertinent...