Word: overwhelm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...however, that the free traders will continue to win. At the end of May, the 24-member Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development will meet in Paris to renew a free-trade pledge, but Britain's vote, at least, is in doubt. The grim facts of recession can overwhelm the best of intentions, as Australia has already proved. After Prime Minister Gough Whitlam's Labor government took office in 1972, it fulfilled an election pledge for tariff reform by slashing levies 25% across the board. As late as last December, Whitlam was telling Europeans that "a retreat into...
...from their windshields. Ward heelers elsewhere rounded up the elderly, the infirm and even the West Madison Street derelicts and took them to the voting booths. In these and other ways, Chicago's 25,000 or so patronage workers-and many of their relatives-helped Richard J. Daley overwhelm three Democratic opponents last week and assure himself of winning an unprecedented sixth term in the general election on April...
...borders and the name of the subject and a date are written, in script underneath. For a book-created by a photographer, the pictures in Elsa's Housebook are surprisingly small and often less revealing of Dorfman and her subjects than the prose that surrounds and often threatens to overwhelm them. Nearly all of the pictures were taken within the last two years in the kitchen or livingroom of Dorfman's modest duplex near Mather House, where she is a photography tutor...
...crossexamination, the dour Mardian came on strong. He tried to overwhelm Assistant Special Prosecutor Jill Wine Volner by sneering contemptuously at her questions. To one, he replied: "Go ahead and make a speech, Mrs. Volner." When she asked a follow-up question, he shot back: "Do you want me to say yes-yes?" Ignoring rebukes from Judge Sirica, Mardian frequently turned to the jury to deliver his own version of the evidence...
...network programs, cover the 1976 Olympics, and discuss athletic issues on a new magazine-type program. ABC'S veteran sports announcer, Howard, was on hand to welcome Billie Jean. Just to make sure nobody got the impression that he was afraid of a newcomer whose vinegary ripostes may overwhelm his own from-the-battlefield style of reportage, he stepped over and gave Billie Jean a kiss...