Word: swing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democrats were ahead with 7,357,579 votes and 139 out of 402 seats in the Bundestag. Kurt Schumacher's Socialists got 6,932,272 votes, 131 seats. The vote meant strong support for the Christian Democrats' free-enterprising ideas, a sharp swing to the right...
...rely almost entirely on highway transport, and therefore needed the U.S. auto industry's help. Weizmann's plea presented Ford a double opportunity: to wipe out the last unpleasant memories of Grandfather Henry Ford's involvement in anti-Semitism,* and at the same time to swing a big deal...
Lumber and cigarette paper? Yes. But good music is about the last thing travelers on U.S. Highway 64 would expect to find in the Blue Ridge town of Brevard, N.C. (pop. 3,000). Last week, nonetheless, with its Transylvania Music Camp in full swing for a fifth consecutive season, Brevard was momentarily the music capital of the South...
...Chamber. Probably more than three Liberals would be willing to join with them in voting for a plebiscite on Leopold. The Catholics, however, would rather govern in continued coalition with the Socialists (66 deputies) than with the Liberals (30 deputies). On the whole, the election represented an anti-Marxist swing. The rightist Liberal Party made the largest gain, and the Communists suffered the sharpest loss (from 23 seats to 12). Even so, the election was so close that the Catholics would have a tough decision to make on whether to put "the royal question" up to the people...
...boats in these races is in order. 150 pound crews, containing no man over 155 pounds are slower and can keep their pace for less distance than the average heavy eight. This is because much of the smoothness and drive of a shell is provided by the easy swing of the upper body and shoulders of the oarsmen at the catch and that, because light weights must make up in strength what they lack in beef, they muscle out a more strenuous and less rhythmic stroke. The Crimson third heavies versus the first 150's is thus an unpredictable...