Word: swing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days before election, Communist Boss Gildo Gasperoni produced his trump card. "We expect to bring home 197 Sammarinesi from Genoa, another four or five hundred from the rest of Italy, and 130 who went to France as coal miners. That ought to be enough to swing the election, I think." On election day the expatriates came home with all expenses paid by the Communist-Socialist coalition...
...friendly, his forehead noble and clear as a scholar's -or an actor's-only a fair dancer but a competent drinker." His dying grandfather, who had Episcopal leanings, was "a merry and evil old man who remembered the days . . . when, small though he was, he could swing a quarryman's sledge and make a woman moan with love." He had urged Aaron to become a rebel and go west...
Also rammed through was a re-registration bill, the net effect of which would be to disfranchise more Negroes, cut down voters' lists and make elections easier to swing. To supplement this, Hummon's boys extended the county-unit voting system to general elections, subject to approval of the voters in 1950. The unit-voting system makes it possible for Hummon's beloved piney-woods counties to outvote their city neighbors...
League "A" basketball got into full swing again yesterday. The scores: Dudley 49, Dunster 33; Adams 49, Eliot 43; Winthrop 29, Kirkland 28; Lowell 63, Leverett 23. In League "B" basketball: Dudley 35, Dunster 31; Lowell 27, Leverett 21; Eliot 23, Adams 21; Winthrop 24, Kirkland...
...good boxer, hung on, dodged, shook loose the cobwebs between rounds. Just before the bell ended the 15th, Pep was in trouble again; as he ducked a punch he sagged, momentarily helpless, against the ropes. Saddler swayed toward him-trying to find strength for just one more swing. He couldn't, and the bell ended one of the most rousing scraps in Garden history...