Word: swing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Battery D shoved Tommy Murphy into the ring. The chaplain held his finger in front of his own nose. "You try to hit it, son," he said. "I'll just show you what clean living and coordination do for you." With studied innocence, Tommy made a wild swing which the well coordinated chaplain easily ducked. "See?" said the chaplain. "Try again." Tommy almost turned himself inside out, missing with another swing. "Try once more," said the chaplain patronizingly. So Tommy let him have that...
...United States must work with the moderate nationalists now controlling the Indonesian Republic, Emerson asserted. "Should they fall, it may lead to a swing to the Communists as the only ones who can be successful...
Hogan grinned. When Smith asked him, finally, if he thought he could win the forthcoming Los Angeles Open, Hogan, who had laid off golf for eleven weeks, said: "No, it takes at least one tournament to school your swing under pressure after a layoff." He proceeded to verify his prophecy by tying for tenth, and then winning last week's $10,000 Bing Crosby Invitation tournament...
...homeostat has not thought out anything very deep or complicated. When it is normal and "comfortable," says Dr. Ashby, the four magnets are centered, each above its box. By setting switches in the boxes, Dr. Ashby can make the magnets swing out of place. Then the machine is "uncomfortable," and begins at once to figure out how to get comfortable again...
...reporter wanted to know whether Marshall's resignation gave any support to an article in LIFE last week by Columnist Jay Franklin, who had written campaign speeches for Truman. Franklin (speaking for himself and specifically not for LIFE) had asserted that the President was preparing to swing away from the For-restal-Marshall-Lovett-Vandenberg policy to a softer policy toward the Russians. That article, said Truman sharply, is absolutely without foundation, in fact, in nearly every instance and every paragraph...