Word: overwhelmingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Administration had not asked for the resolution, and it seemed downright embarrassed when the House passed it last week by the overwhelming margin of 312 to 52 votes. The resolution established no new policy, offered no new recommendations, gave the President no new powers, had no binding force. Yet...
With Phoumi out of the way, the bickering among non-Communist politicians also died down. The fairest parliamentary elections in Laotian history went off without incident in July. Only 25% of the incumbents got themselves reelected, but the government won such an overwhelming victory that when the new Parliament met...
"This," said Boston's Dr. Dana Mc Lean Greeley, a Unitarian observer at Vatican II, "is perhaps the greatest day of the council." By an overwhelming vote of 1,997 to 224, Catholic bishops last week approved in principle the text of their declaration on religious liberty. Two days...
Last week, with support from every major element in the city, Cavanagh, 37, won an overwhelming primary victory that all but assures his re-election in November.
Flying Cranes that look like praying mantises, can haul aloft a command-post pod or a disabled airplane with equal ease-or thrust 94 men at a stroke into battle. The 1st Cavalry's transport helicopters are protected by rocket-firing choppers-and at 100 m.p.h. the First Team...