Word: overwhelmingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Climax & Philosophy. In this melodramatic fashion last week came the climax to one of the most remarkable episodes in U.S. criminal annals. The man thus saved -if perhaps only temporarily-was convicted twelve years ago of 17 felonies and sentenced to death on two of those crimes, both of them...
The Republican Party is unmistakably a minority party and cannot win the 1960 presidential election without capturing an overwhelming majority of the independent votes. So, in effect, reported the Gallup poll this week after a sampling of 9,415 voters; only 30% said they considered themselves Republicans, as against 47...
Chickens & Golf Balls. In the face of all the hazards, FAA, overall, is doing a first-rate job. Mechanically, the job is overwhelming. FAA alone has 41 volumes on rules and procedures, and airline-maintenance libraries run along yards of shelf space; there are even manuals on how to read...
In this chaos-the same kind of chaos that toppled the Fourth Republic-all that restrained the army was the fact that France's head of state was Charles de Gaulle, who clearly had overwhelming public support in Metropolitan France. Public opinion in the Metropole was behind De Gaulle...
Free Lunch. Yet on the basis of last year's upper house elections-when Kishi and his Liberal Democrats won an overwhelming victory over the Socialist opposition-the rancor of the press hardly reflects the feelings of the voters of Japan. At week's end, when Kishi'...