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Word: overwhelmingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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The overwhelming Tory vote in a predominantly urban area of that size partially reflects a working-class protest against wage freezes and other austerity measures imposed by the Wilson government. Without doubt, the elections also gave many Laborites the chance to express their dissatisfaction without having to go so far...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Conservative Comeback | 4/21/1967 | See Source »

In the fight to fill that market, estimated at 1,200 short-haul jets, Douglas' two-year-old DC-9 has moved into an overwhelming lead: 441 firm orders plus 118 options from 33 airlines. Last week the company turned over the 100th DC-9 from its Long Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: Fighting for the Short Haul | 4/21/1967 | See Source »

The Juvenal and Horace efforts in Near the Ocean now show Lowell as the proper envy of every translator in English: he has been able to have his cake and eat it. By this I mean that the relevance of Pasternak's remark, true enough for ordinary translators, has faded...

Author: By Carroll Moulton, | Title: ROMAN RUINS IN AMERICA | 4/21/1967 | See Source »

Important as I take this flaw to be, it is not overwhelming, and Jones' later moments are almost atonement. John Lithgow as Sparky is, predictably enough, superb throughout as is Jack White as the changeable bargee. Roger Kozol who stood in for Ross as Hurst will, with any sort of...

Author: By Charles F. Sabel, | Title: Serjeant Musgrave's Dance | 4/15/1967 | See Source »

Chase Manhattan implied might be a pretty sound idea. Two days later, President Rudolph A. Peterson of California's Bank of America went even fur ther. In a talk to the New York Chamber of Commerce, he argued that "as a last resort" the U.S. should refuse to sell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gold: Octopus in a Blanket | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

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