Word: prevailingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Makarios, Vice President Kuchuk and the ambassadors from Greece and Turkey. The negotiations nearly collapsed when Makarios announced that Cyprus' treaties with Britain, Greece and Turkey were invalid, which seemed simply the first step in a unilateral attempt to scrap the constitution itself. Yet Sandys managed to prevail...
...which is to be more than 20 years old." By now Goulart was busily circumscribing Pinto's authority, and Pinto resigned as a matter of duty-"the duty of being coherent at an hour when the demagoguery of some and the greed of others seem to prevail...
...problem that consistently confronts racist law makers in the question of defining who is "Negro" and who is "white." In general, two schools of "thought" prevail is the United States on this issue. In about nine states a Negro is anyone who had a grandparent who was a Negro. The laws generally define such a person as "having one-eighth or more Negro blood" or as an "octoroon." The other definition of Negro is used in at least six states: a Negro is any person who has "any trace of Negro blood." The circularity of these statements does not seem...
...Mississippi's heritage may still prevail, Half a year has passed since the death of Evers and still no one has been brought to trial for the crime. Beckworth is still charged with the killing, but the summer's sense of urgency has been lost, and a series of events have prevented the trial. Last month circuit Judge Lexon Hendrik of Haines County convened court for a hearing on the case. But the defendant did not appear. Apparently Sheriff Jonathan Edwards had received no notice that he was to bring the prisoner to court. On Nov. 25 Judge Hendrik called...
...keep emotion and reason separate and let our reason prevail. We must place our faith in the man whom we have elected to replace President Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson. The late President himself wrote that the courageous governor or legislator acts according to his conscience--we must allow President Johnson to try to follow the example of the Profiles in Courage. Finally, there is no reason for the death of President Kennedy at the hands of an insane individual to cause Congress to become overwhelmingly emotional about the passage of President Kennedy's civil rights legislation--this is a matter...