Word: overwhelmingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While the Russians obviously prefer favorable opinion when they can get it, and on one or two occasions have been swayed by overwhelming opposition in the U.N., they are massively indifferent to criticism, as they have shown when they put up the Berlin Wall and suppressed the Hungarian revolution. The...
Los Angeles Timesman Ruben Salazar interviewed a rebel accused by the State Department of being a Communist: "Florentine doesn't look dangerous. He's slight of build and sports a thin mustache. I went away wishing we had done something to win him to our side." Wrote Dan...
A second example is the filibuster. In the same Congress in which conservative use of this device against its traditional target, civil rights, was dealt a death blow by the urgency and overwhelming popularity of the issue, liberals found the procedure of invaluable use. A highly conservative measure directed against...
U.D.I. stands for "Unilateral Declaration of Independence," a doctrine that Prime Minister Ian Smith threatens to invoke unless Britain grants freedom to his white-supremacist nation, which remains tied to London through a colonial constitution. To prepare for U.D.I., Smith dissolved his Parliament six weeks ago, called on Rhodesia'...
The Amber Light. At the end of six months, the overwhelming majority (73%) gallantly felt that they could learn to live with eight booms a day. But one out of every four felt that he could not. Still, when those who were uncertain about the advisability of supersonic planes were...