Word: overwhelmingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After his defeat on the cloture motion. Mansfield moved to table the bill, and announced that a vote against tabling would be interpreted as support for the bill itself. The vote against tabling was 64-33, meaning that almost two-thirds of the Senators favored a bill that they were...
BUT what, if anything, has this to do with the Advocate? Let's go back to the letter: "where creative thinking flourishes," it says, "there the creative arts should flourish also. ...There will be no group of Donne-and-Yeats-citing and always identifiable poets...." He has accused our poets...
The basic voters showed their support for Ayub's system with a 95% turnout that ignored clandestine appeals to boycott the polls. They heavily endorsed three of Ayub's ministers who were running for the National Assembly - notably Kashmir Affairs Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a zealous champion of...
To his credit, Layton did call for a change in loudness in the first movement; be occasionally tried to bring out a few of the obvious string lines. When that didn't work he had to revert just to keeping time. Happily, he did that efficiently, with a minimum of...
With a hint of his old testiness, Khrushchev protested that Russian rancor at the U-2 incident in 1960 has "not healed yet" and that if Kennedy were to visit Russia, it "would put our guest in a difficult position." (Actually, Westerners in Moscow know that, on the contrary, John...