Word: overriden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have nailed up signs that read 'Keep Out.' " The enthusiasm of the audience mounted as Ike pounded ahead: "Thousands upon thousands of Republican voters-an overwhelming majority of them-were deliberately and ruthlessly disenfranchised. Majority rule, the very basis of our free government, was here flouted and overriden." Then Ike drew the moral: "No party can clean up the Government of the United States unless that party-from top to bottom-is clean itself...
...former, there is considerable doubt that one Council member could adequately represent the student viewpoint. Moreover, in cases where Faculty committees made decisions objectionable to undergraduates, there would be no way of telling whether the Council member had been overriden because he was deficient in the art of debate, or because his position was genuinely unnamable...
...more than that," snapped Wisconsin's Republican Congressman Glenn R. Davis, 35, winner of nine battle stars in 3½ years' service with the Navy in the Pacific. Everyone knew, he went on, that the President would veto the bill and the veto would not be overriden. "It smacks too much of trying to show up the President," he said. "It will not be good politics to vote against the bill, but those of you who have been talking about economy . . . should...