Word: overwhelming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HAMP tries a British youth for deserting when the blood and din of World War I overwhelm him. Though innocent of evil, he is guilty of breach of duty, and must be condemned. Robert Salvio is movingly effective as the frightened Private Hamp...
...parties that siphoned off millions of votes. For another, India's warring opposition parties finally began to join forces. They accounted for more than 50% of the ballots in three previous elections, but their votes had often been canceled out through disunity. This time they formed alliances to overwhelm the Congress Party, whose share of the total vote fell from 44.7% in 1962 to 39.6%. In the hunger-racked West Bengal, 13 parties got together behind a former Congress Party leader and won control of the state. In Kerala, Bihar, Madras and Orissa, opportunistic alliances unseated Congress-controlled state...
Anecdotes & Tactics. He was quite willing on occasion to let art overwhelm him. One time after he had acquired a Cézanne, he presented it to his seminar and began to expostulate on its form. Suddenly he stopped, exploded, "My God, just look at it!" This is the sensation one gets while viewing the current memorial exhibit from his collection at New York's Museum of Modern Art. The memorial could not be better hung nor more appropriately placed: not only was he one of the Modern's seven founders; he also hand-picked as its first...
...mainly fearful of the effects of carrying out Gideon's admitted logic. Most misdemeanor cases now take only a few minutes; to require lawyers might inflate them into regular trials. The country has not even begun to provide enough public defenders for accused felons; adding misdemeanor cases might overwhelm...
...research, McNamara said only that there has been no decision to deploy it. Privately, he is opposed to Nike-X's deployment. For one thing, there is Nike's cost-a minimum of $30 billion; moreover, McNamara says, even if Nike-X is installed, the Russians could overwhelm it with an expenditure of only $5 billion in additional offensive power. He remains convinced that as long as the U.S. maintains its retaliatory capability, a nuclear exchange is highly unlikely...