Word: overwhelmingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Denial of Backwardness. As expected, Negroes turned out in force for Kefauver. For the first time since Reconstruction, large numbers of Negroes lined up to vote in Fayette County (TIME, Aug. 8). "All I know is," said one rural Negro, looking for the place to deposit his ballot, "I want...
Last week the House, by overwhelming majority, decided that Osmeňa had "profaned the sanctity and degraded the dignity of the House," suspended him for 15 months. Delighted by his victory, Garcia used the occasion to push through a toothless anti-graft bill. But there were others who questioned...
"The overwhelming opinion of the nation's librarians is that young people are reading more and better books than ever before."
" 'Now as to the incident at the Polo Grounds, I have been assured that the people there were, in overwhelming majority, anxious to welcome me as a representative of a nation with which they wished to cooperate and have friendly relations.
Last week North Carolina's voters held to their traditionally independent path, gave Sanford a 77,000-plus majority and a clear mandate for moderation as the state's next Governor. Sanford, manager of the late, liberal Senator Kerr Scott's successful campaign in 1954, had painstakingly...