Word: overridden
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...political views held by him and his wife Joanne. Their social awareness is admirable, but it has led their moviemaking astray. As two of the screen's most talented artists, they could have brought strength to Stone's closely stitched characters. Instead, personality and plot are overridden by politics...
That night, just before Chokel went to the printers with the BAP story, five black students visited him in his room and insisted that he not run the article. One of the blacks was Wilbur Stevens, general manager of the HarBus, whose veto of the BAP editorial had been overridden. Chokel said, "I think now I would have refused to speak to Wil unless they left. Wil was bringing in outside forces who shouldn't have been here." A white proprietor said that the five black students "weren't going there to get 'no' for an answer...
...lines of force. Yet the lines kept distorting into caricature: the free-spending, socially conscious heirs to the New Deal v. the business-minded, anti-inflation Nixonians. An army of 700 amateur education lobbyists converged on Capitol Hill, limning the social misery that would ensue unless the veto were overridden. Meantime the White House staff put intense pressure on House Republicans. Two days after the veto, House Democratic leaders fell 52 votes short of the two-thirds majority necessary to override the veto. With 226 members supporting the bill and 191 behind the Administration, the measure went back...