Word: seesaws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hurley, Secretary of War under Herbert Hoover and a Roosevelt emissary to China and Russia, was running a seesaw race with Democratic Senator Dennis Chavez...
Massachusetts. Paul Dever, the Democratic incumbent and the hoarse, perspiring National Convention keynoter, found himself in a seesaw battle with Republican Congressman Christian Herter. Dever's great strength was in Boston, which he carried by more than 120,000 votes (while Stevenson was carrying it by only 65,000). But it was not quite enough. Scholarly Christian Herter carried the state by more than...
...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...