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Word: overwhelmingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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And the Africans do all the cooking. The overwhelming majority of blacks are allowed to go only as far as grammar school-"a waiter's education," as one African puts it. The nation has only three African lawyers, a dozen African doctors and not a single African in a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: We Want Our Country | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

"We Will Stand." It was late July when the President of the U.S. summoned his aides to a three-day secret session to deliberate Viet Nam. Just back from Saigon was Defense Secretary Robert McNamara with the grim prognosis of peril. When Johnson announced his decision, it was the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: A New Kind of War | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

"We Would Be Mad." While Smith and his ministers talked on through the week, government radio and television stations were firing up the fervor for U.D.I, to a white heat. When Harold Wilson came up with a last-ditch proposal to send in a peace-keeping mission of "senior Commonwealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rhodesia: White Hot | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

In his campaign for leadership of the Turkish government, Demirel was attacked by his opposition as too pro-American. As it turned out, that seemed to be a compliment. Demirel last week rode the demirkirat to an overwhelming victory, received 55.5% of the vote, far more than anyone had expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turkey: A Ride to Victory | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

His overwhelming win in part was a tribute to the faulty judgment of his prime opponent, seasoned Republican Party Chieftain Ismet Inönü, 81. Well aware that his own do-little administration had done nothing to enhance him with the voters, Inönü hoped to appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turkey: A Ride to Victory | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

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