Word: boomeranger
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...Democrats cannot afford to make health a real issue in this campaign as it might easily boomerang on them," Fuchs said...
...certainly intends to run even without the endorsement. "I feel relieved," said he. "Now the people can speak." Chances are still good that the people will speak for Wiley, especially since Democrats can cross over in the Wisconsin primary. What is more, the hardshell G.O.P. element may get another boomerang black eye. Candidate Davis must give up his House seat to run against Wiley, and the Democrats are conniving to grab...
...would be an even more dangerous error for Congress to suggest that nations receiving U.S. aid will eventually accept a foreign policy dictated from Washington. Already, arguments to this effect have boomerang: some Congressmen now cite unchanged neutralist foreign policies as proof that U.S. aid is valueless to this country. Mr. Dulles put the counter argument well: "Our interest will be fully served if other nations maintain their independence and strengthen their free institutions. We have no further aims than these...
Many diplomats, however, fear that Chiang's plans will boomerang. If Nationalist China does explode the "package deal," the indignation of Arab-Asian countries and many Latin American nations may be so great that there will be a serious effort to eject Nationalist China altogether from the General Assembly at this session. The US might be hard put to block expulsion, even though success in preventing the ouster would require only one-third of the sixty-nation Assembly...
...swarthy aborigines of Australia are an odd, intelligent lot whose dress (occasional paint and feathers) affords maximum ornamentation with minimum constriction, whose arsenal includes the fabled boomerang and whose mythology is more complicated than Carl Jung? On Sale in the U.S. last week was a handsome book published by the New York Graphic Society and UNESCO (Australia-Aboriginal Paintings; $15) which showed that aboriginal art, too, has surprising qualities...