Word: seesaws
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...Kansas, a dizzy seesaw battle came to a Democratic victory for Lawrence Banker George Docking, 52, over Topeka Republican Warren W. Shaw, 48, who failed to overcome two severe handicaps: 1) G.O.P. factionalism, and 2) charges that, as Shawnee County chairman, he had received kickbacks on gasoline sales to the state...
After two months of seesaw argument and close study, the Federal Reserve Board took another sounding of the U.S. economy last week and gently started loosening its credit reins. In the biggest buying since March, FRB went quietly into the open market, added $196 million to its holdings of Treasury bills (maturing in 90 to 92 days), thus released more bank funds for loans to busi ness. As one result, the highly sensitive Treasury bill interest rate dropped from...
These two novels seesaw between a love of business and the business of love, and both writers make big business a good deal more fascinating than love...
...sixth-game, ninth-inning single that gave the Yankees the crown. Against the Washington Senators Martin sparked his team with two crackling hits. Whitey Ford pitched a brilliant one-hitter, Mickey Mantle slammed out his 36th homer, drove in three runs, winning the game 4-2. In the dizzy seesaw American League race with Chicago (ahead by half a game) and Cleveland (half a game out), it was good, pennant-grabbing, Yankee ball...
...discredited it." Yet the surprising fact in last week's news was the unsuspected strength of the European resistance to neutral belts, Russian model. French Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay took to TV to tell the French people that "German neutrality "would offer Germany all the temptations of the seesaw policy between East and West, the disastrous effect of which we all know so well...