Word: seesawing
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...G.O.P. delegates in his home state of Ohio last week, and tucked them into his briefcase. The big Ohio bloc was never really in doubt for Mr. Republican; only Harold Stassen was entered in the primary against him. The vote put Taft back in front of Eisenhower in the seesaw delegate quotations (see box), and gave him a luxurious feeling of wellbeing. Said he with a satisfied air: "I'll never be headed...
...Napoleon has had a seesaw installed in the billiard room, and he asked the Grand Maréchal if he had any idea what...
...good example of Browning's new style is Seesaw, a group of children teeter-tottering dizzily up a perpendicular canvas. Another Browning trick: painting her Harlemites from above, so that the figures can be seen against a background of pavement litter and sidewalk doodles...
...forces last week was a tank battalion-45 big Pattons-dispatched toward Uijongbu, eleven miles north of allied-held Seoul. Its stated task: to "seek out and destroy the enemy." Its purpose was, at least in part, to deny the town, almost leveled after ten months of seesaw war, to the Reds as an assembly point and staging base...
...that took no particular study and needed little development. Compounded of his strengths and weaknesses, the style he settled for was as personal as a signature. Anybody who has seen one Modigliani can recognize a second one at a glance: almost all his painted people have swan necks, seesaw eyes and ski-run noses. Surprisingly enough, he was able to characterize each one sharply within that arbitrary formula. For traditional draftsmanship he substituted clear, smoothly looping lines that divide the canvas into locked swirls of space. Instead of a full palette he used a few colors ranging from the darkness...