Word: overwhelmingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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One sunny day in 1945, a young kamikaze pilot named Masayuki Nagare was taking time off from war. As he strolled down the runway at the Japanese naval airbase on Kyushu, he idly picked up a stone. With the age-old Japanese reverence for the texture and shape of stone...
Messing with the Masses. As friends should, Frost and Untermeyer came to have few illusions about each other. Both were aware of Frost's monomania and his overwhelming intolerance of anyone who dared to disagree with him. "Sometimes I can think of no blissfuller state," Frost wrote, "than being...
But at week's end Georgia's Richard B. Russell, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, disagreed flatly: "I find that I cannot conscientiously support this treaty." Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, another influential member of the Armed Services Committee, also announced that he would definitely vote against...
"The overwhelming majority of Americans," said Neilan in Seattle last week, "simply have been indifferent to this scandal because they have not realized how deeply it affects them. I think it is time all of us stopped laughing over the antics of politicians and woke up to the fact that...
The new records were like a pair of dominoes toppling at the head of the line. Next day, U.S. Freestylers Steve Clark, Richard McDonough, Gary II-man and Edward Townsend surged through the 400-meter relay to set a new world mark of 3:36.1. Carl Robie, an 18-year...