Word: overwhelmingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week 76,000 Atlantans (less than half of the city's 181,000 registered voters) went to the polls, made Allen's prediction of his winning percentage come close to true by handing him 70% of the vote-53,187 to Smith's 21,153. And...
After only four hours of debate, the House passed the bill by an overwhelming roll-call vote of 367 to 22 and sent it to the Senate, which is considering additional proposals of its own.
With his overwhelming popular mandate and his awesome power over Congress, Lyndon Johnson was given-and passed up-a historic opportunity to reform and redirect the farm program.
What Shuman can claim overwhelming credit for is the defeat of the 1963 nationwide wheat referendum, which shook the Kennedy Administration to its socks. It was the Gettysburg of the war between farmer and bureaucrat-and Shuman was its General Meade. The referendum's Robert E. Lee was Willard...
BACH: THE ST. MATTHEW PASSION (London). Karl Miinchinger and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra give the masterpiece an interpretation that is lovingly faithful to Bach's design. It has an appropriately reverent quality rather than the overwhelming emotional thrust of massed voices that most often dominate baroque oratorios. Among the...