Word: seesawing
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...year later there was a small revolution. Marshal Phibun Songgram, Pridi's ancient rival in the seesaw of Siamese politics, took over as Premier and charged that Pridi himself was responsible for the King's murder. (Pridi has since turned up in Peking, leading a "Free Thai" movement blessed by the Communists.) In the years that followed, successive courts of inquiry tried to fix the blame for the King's death on other guilty parties to no positive avail...
Electronic Cousin. For papers everywhere, the 1954 election was tough to cover. In the seesaw New Jersey race, the New York Post ran a banner head line: CASE LEADS HOWELL. Under it was a picture of "Senator-elect Howell, who defeated Republican Clifford P. Case." In Oregon, Eugene Register-Guard Editor William Tugman wrote an explanation of why the Democratic senatorial candidate, Richard Neuberger, lost, next day took it back with an article headed: NEUBERGER WINS AFTER ALL, MAYBE, HUH? FINE ARGUMENT FOR VOTING MACHINES...
...regrettable," Der Alte cried, "that men of such excellent reputation are making remarks which might be harmful." He asserted that the Russians had deliberately exaggerated Germany's potential market in the U.S.S.R. He hit Brüning's "seesaw policy" as unsuitable, and as tending to create "distrust in Germany's reliability." Bruning hastily said that he had not meant his remarks to be publicized...
Moving fast to consolidate the power he won after a six-week seesaw battle with Mohammed Naguib, Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser turned last week to the problem of a faithless friend. During the years he risked his neck plotting the overthrow of King Farouk, Nasser handpicked every one of the 14 original members of the Revolutionary Command Council, including Major Khaled Mohed-dine. Nasser knew that husky, young (33) Moheddine had been a Communist, but he accepted his oath of loyalty and his pledge to quit the Communist Party...
...week the seesaw teetered crazily. It began with Naguib on top. Bounding happily out of a meeting of the R.C.C., he told the waiting mob: "There is good news for you." Grimly, R.C.C. Secretary Major Kamal Hussein announced the details: on July 24 the two-year-old revolution would end. A parliament elected by the old parties would take over...