Word: swing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...elbows came through the door, scattering glass before them. The invaders slowly climbed, one by one, through the empty frames in the door. I watched their leader-a blond youth of 20-walk quickly up to a grey-haired clerk leaning innocently against a desk, spin him around, swing a haymaker at the man's temple and send him sprawling across the marble floor against the wall. The man got up holding his aching head, shaking it slowly as if in disbelief. Fighting and fear spread swiftly...
...Elmo Roper were publicly advising the President to throw in the sponge (see above). Eleanor Roosevelt practically conceded a Republican sweep; she included in one of her daily columns a friendly warning for President-apparent Tom Dewey on the problem of getting along with Congress. Heading back from a swing through the West, Columnist Marquis Childs reported the Pacific Coast in the bag for the Republicans, gave the Democrats a fighting chance in only five of eleven western states...
...unforgettable, even when he struck out. His swing whirled him around until his slender legs were twisted beneath him. And the times when his big bat did connect were baseball's biggest moments. The spell lasted until the Babe had trotted around the base paths, taking mincing steps on his small feet, tipping his cap to the mighty, reverent roar from the stands...
Chicken Dinner. It took no professional politico to tell the President that both punches were wide of the mark. His criticism of the congressional investigations was irresponsible; as the onetime head of a Senate investigating committee he should have remembered Congress' inquisitorial duty. His swing at Congress went almost unnoticed: he had used the same punch too many times before...
...also taken a while for McCarthy's highly touted boys to realize that they had to run to catch fly balls, take a healthy swing to knock a ball out of the infield, hustle to throw an opposing batter out at first...