Word: overwhelmingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The heart-warming thing about the game was the fact that a bunch of regular fellows--hard working students like you and me--was able to play and beat hard-core professionals. In view of the fact that an overwhelming percentage of the Council players were Canadians with doubtful amateur...
Yazid's mild jest did not obscure the real importance of the occasion. In a single night he had driven 500 miles to Tunis from the Libyan capital of Tripoli, where the Algerian National Revolutionary Council had been in session, to tell waiting newsmen of the cease-fire agreement...
>Nehru's Congress Party lost strength in all but two of the twelve state legislatures involved in the elections, and lost its majority in the states of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. In the Lok Sabhal (lower house of Parliament), it lost at least 25 seats. But the final count...
Helping Hand. From the Noa, Glenn proceeded by helicopter, carrier and plane to Grand Turk Island for his two-day debriefing and the preparations for his homecoming. But he had time to go spearfishing and to lend a helping hand to Fellow Astronaut Scott Carpenter when a skindiver lost consciousness...
He did not have to look far for support. A discharge petition, taking a bill out of a committee's hands, is an unusual move, which is against Senate traditions. Arriving on the Senate floor to fight the petition, McClellan growled to a colleague: "I don't know...