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Word: overwhelmingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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If the dear hearts and gentle people would think back to Pearl Harbor, they might recall that the surprise blow was struck midst tea-and talks aimed at achieving a common ground of understanding. Such men as Powers and the agency they represent deserve our overwhelming gratitude for undertaking the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 6, 1960 | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

Faced with Vice President Nixon's overwhelming claim on the nomination, Rocky had withdrawn last December as an active challenger. Republicans of every hue, including Dick Nixon, immediately and persistently began to woo him as the most promising vice-presidential candidate around, but Rocky straight-armed every proposal. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Back in the Race | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

Food is the overwhelming problem of India. Many an Indian cabinet minister has staked his reputation on solving the food problem, and has lost. But bouncing, brawny Sadashiv Kanoji Patil, 59, is a maverick among the elite who have largely staffed the echelons of India's government since independence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Peasant Against Famine | 5/16/1960 | See Source »

Full & Balanced? Salisbury stuck to his guns and so did the Times. Wrote Managing Editor Turner Catledge in two rare signed statements: "The Times standards require the reporting of the news in its fullest and most balanced form . . . The New York Times has every confidence that Mr. Salisbury reported the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Birmingham Story | 5/16/1960 | See Source »

Since 1846, when the U.S. Senate wrangled for two months over the Oregon resolution (which led to a treaty defining U.S.-British jurisdiction in the Pacific Northwest), no other debate ever made a bigger demand on Senate time and vocal cords. The Senate's civil rights debate began last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Moment of Victory | 4/18/1960 | See Source »

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