Word: overwhelmingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nixon won this state handily with 65 per cent to overwhelm Humphrey's 24 and Wallace's 11. Incumbent dove Frank Church won his Senate seat over his challenger, Fred Handel...
Burrell (5'10", 170) is the same size as Hornblower (5'10", 180). He will not overwhelm Gatto (5'6", 185) who makes up for his lack of height by power...
...Gallery showroom is stuffed with pictures. Shoulder to shoulder, frame to frame, they overwhelm the viewer as he enters. Yet there is no ex-Cliffie receptionist to threaten you at the door, no sickening plunge into wall-to-wall restraint and exclusiveness like one finds in New York's big galleries. The drawers and drawers of prints are open to anyone. You may shudder at shuffling and bending beautiful Goyas as you look through the stacks of prints. But at least you can see them for yourself with no hassle, look, touch, browse as long as you want...
...hard-bitten European mercenaries who have thrown in their lot with Biafra. Last week, in one of their most successful raids yet, Biafran commandos managed to sneak behind federal lines near Owerri and bushwhack Nigerian columns, killing 116 Nigerians. But federal field commanders have launched a "final push" to overwhelm Ojukwu's forces...
...Overwhelming Irony. With the possible exception of John Kenneth Galbraith, most American critics embarked on a similar analysis of the U.S. would be likely to castigate their own culture in the stern and relentless manner of modern Cotton Mathers. But the French manage to be amusing, or at least elegant, even about the prospect of doom. Nourissier's book is charming and witty, his chief weapon being irony. If the irony at times seems to overwhelm the reader, that too is part of his message: the French are so full of contradictions that he can only explain their affection...