Word: overwhelmingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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U.S. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg declared that the vote "demonstrated that it is not the U.S. alone which has kept Communist China out of the U.N." That was obvious to anyone who could count. Also obvious was the fact that what had once been an overwhelming majority of nations on the...
And the first quarter seemed to justify the overwhelming majority of the experts. Tallback Ron Landeck, on his way to breaking Gary Wood's Ivy single-season total offense mark and Dick Kasmaier's Princeton season record, led the Tigers 69 yards to a 7-0 lead.
One of the most strategic holds was in Nigeria's Western region, where Chief Samuel Akintola's pro-North government faced apparently overwhelming opposition. Akintola himself had little popular support; he had been appointed Premier three years ago after a blatant power play that sent anti-North Chief...
Some Brazilians fear that because Costa e Silva has the power, he may one day succumb to the temptation to set himself up as Brazil's dictator. He scoffs at the idea. "If I wanted to be come a dictator," he says, "I would have taken power right after...
What's Wrong? From the California Real Estate Association, the court heard a far different story. Section 26 represents the people's overwhelming veto of "ill-conceived" laws forbidding private discrimination, said Los Angeles Lawyer Samuel O. Pruitt Jr. Those laws, he suggested, violated private-property rights under...