Word: looming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MORE ANTITRUST SUITS loom against automakers. After slapping General Motors bus division with monopoly suit, Justice Department is pushing investigation of G.M.'s 55% share of U.S. auto market. Another possible suit: against Ford, charging that it violates antitrust laws by forcing dealers to sell quotas of parts and accessories...
...that this country must rethink the future of its foreign policy. There are men close to the Administration who do see the changes demanded: Milton Eisenhower, John Sherman Cooper, Paul Hoffman, or Harold Stassen. If John Foster Dulles is not replaced, however, his continuance in office is likely to loom as a major issue in the November election...
...book implies, the narrow Democratic congressional victories of 1954 really foreshadowed Republican success in 1956, rather than a reversal of 1952's G.O.P. trend. The American voter has an emotional fear of depression and war, and his vote on election day often depends on which seems to loom largest at the moment. By 1954, the memory of Korea had begun to fade; the chief issue was economic, and Democratic allusions to the Republicans as a depression party had their effect...
...Lucy]: 'You mustn't loom over me all the time...
...Jeff sat on the floor ... his head near her waist. 'I like to loom over...