Word: swing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the big guns in the Crimson track arsenal swing into action this weekend at the IC4A championships in Philadelphia, it will be the last chance for five of them to crack existing Harvard records...
...appropriation for foreign relief and the labor bill, which were almost ready for delivery (see below). That was not counting routine business, which was being clicked off satisfactorily: a $3.2 billion income-tax cut (as of July 1) for U.S. taxpayers; and an economy drive which continued in full swing...
...Spectators at the Washington Post's celebrities' golf tournament were fascinated by the spectacle of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz teeing a golf ball off Actor Edward Arnold's eye while General Dwight D. Eisenhower beamed from the sidelines (see cut). The Admiral didn't swing...
...could pass for 40), until he pulled out his press clippings. Sure enough, in 1935 he was the 17-year-old boy wonder who won the South African Open. His playing was old style. His stroke was a throwback to the basic Harry Vardon type of "inside-out" swing (most modern pros punch the ball more). He liked long, narrow fairways, for he specialized in consistently straight drives (average: 250 yards). The way he explains it: "Just a simple twist of the wrist, old fellow...
...made it plain that Jed had always rubbed him the wrong way. As a Congressman Jed Johnson, he said, was always asking for petty favors. To make sure they were granted he frequently threatened to swing an economy ax on Ickes' Interior Department. Ickes had finally decided that there was only one way out-to boot Jed upstairs as hard as he could. That was why he had got Franklin Roosevelt to offer Jed the judgeship...