Word: pendulums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Manuel Avila Camacho had last week been President for precisely six weeks, but he had already set the pendulum of Mexican politics swinging in a new direction. In Mexico's turbulent history since the 1917 revolution the pendulum has swung alternately left and right. Between 1924 and 1927 President Plutarco Elías Calles made Mexico nationalistic, anticlerical, anti-U. S. Then Calles grew conservative and the pendulum swung to the right until another strong-man President, Lázaro Cárdenas, gave it a violent heave to the left. Avila Camacho had not only started...
...hummingbird when in love sways back & forth like a pendulum attached to an invisible wire, in an arc of some twelve feet, and makes a sound "like a bow drawn across cello strings...
Truth was that the Popular Front, like Republican Spain, represented the Leftmost swing of the political pendulum in Europe. But the Right became stronger and more determined. Franco won in Spain, the Old Bolsheviks were purged in Russia, in France the Popular Front fell. And Britain's seesaw diplomacy floundered Europe into war, with France tied to Britain's tail...
...Poole got a $750 Altman Prize for Young Dancer, a demure Victorian damsel in a flowing pink dress. To the new president, tweedy, grey-haired Hobart Nichols, went an award for Winter Pattern, one of his customary snow-covered landscapes. Said pleased President Nichols: "The Academy is like a pendulum to a clock-it assures a rational, regular, orderly progress. It has no room for experimentalists. . . . The Academy can afford to wait...
...them were moments which could never be forgotten: the disheveled hair of a dead woman slowly falling, straight and perpendicular, between the massive halves of a drawbridge as they rise (Ten Days That Shook the World); the medical officer's pince-nez, dangling from its black cord with pendulum-like regularity after catching in the rigging when the officer is thrown overboard by the crew (Potemkin...