Word: boomerang
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...Republicans' previous stand, Truman Democrats suspected a trap. There was no machinery ready to ration all goods and police all prices across the land; the Administration feared chaos would result. Democrats well remembered their 1946 congressional defeat (when the G.O.P slogan was "Had enough?"); controls were apt to boomerang. On the other hand, if an uncontrolled economy did run away, Republicans could properly charge the Administration with irresponsibility...
...good many other Republicans seemed to be hoping the same thing, but some held back for fear that McCarthy's charges -once discredited-might boomerang to their political disadvantage...
...Boomerang. In Manhattan. Mrs. Evelyn Lanier, who shot down Gunman Thomas Wright when he tried to hold up her mother's grocery, was a heroine until detectives found that they had to book her for doing the shooting with an unlicensed pistol once stolen from the police...
...recent enthusiastic claims for anti-histaminics*nothing has been found to prevent or cure colds. This goes for salves, nose drops, gargles, vaccines and every other nostrum. All that the victim can do is try to get some relief. For a stuffy nose, drops are helpful (though sometimes they boomerang and cause renewed stuffiness). Aspirin soothes headache, fever and muscle pains which go with a cold. Alcohol, the Journal concedes, "in reasonable doses," expands the blood vessels and restores circulation to chilled skin and mucous membrane. But the old standby, rest in bed, is still the treatment doctors like best...
...City congress, Communism is actually on the decline in Latin America. It has been outlawed in nine countries, plagued by party splits in others. In several countries, e.g., Cuba, the party has deliberately cut its own membership rolls to be ready for underground activity. Moreover, the peace rally could boomerang on party members in some countries. Brazil's Deputy Pedro Pomar, who is a member of the outlawed Communist party but holds his seat because he was also elected on the Social Progressive ticket, was threatened with expulsion from Brazil's Congress after saying in Mexico that Brazil...