Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week, on the tenth anniversary of the approval of the Salk vaccine for general use, congressional leaders presented Dr. Salk with a joint resolution of the Senate and House expressing the nation's gratitude. The U.S. Public Health Service's Surgeon General, Dr. Luther Terry, called the virtual stamping-out of polio by the Salk vaccine and the live-virus polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Albert Sabin and approved in 1961, "a historical triumph of preventive medicine-unparalleled in history...
...turned up), Ho's country could be reduced to an even more dire penury than it now suffers by a mere week of U.S. air strikes. Communist that he is, Ho doubtless dreads the thought of massive aid with manpower from Red China, for it would mean virtual occupation by his vast neighbor. But he presumably has got Lyndon Johnson's message that the U.S. is staunchly committed to the cause of freedom in Southeast Asia...
...enforce equal voting rights through legislation, in effect overriding Article 1, Section 2 of the Constitution, which leaves voting qualifications entirely up to the states. But the legislation that Congress devised was more often than not sloppily written or beyond constitutional bounds. The effect of it all was virtual disenfranchisement of Negroes in the Deep South...
Sophomore Frank Costello is the only 6 ft., 10 in high jumper around and is a virtual shoo-in with Pardee out of the competition...
Confronted with a virtual coup d'etat last month, the HDC membership responded as expected. When five undergraduates announced their self-appointment as a non-elective, self-perpetuating executive committee that would select all mainstage plays, it was a new version of the old nightmare. Faculty influence was suspected: "Chapman and Hamlin are probably behind this, you know;" "The committee will be a pawn of the Faculty within a few years...