Word: swing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, Adlai Stevenson left Springfield by plane for a swing through the Midwest and South. Five days, 4,400 miles and 25 speeches later, he was back in Springfield. He had had a good week. The crowds he drew in the streets were still smaller than Ike's, but his major speeches packed auditoriums and were well received. He was in fine literary form, produced several new witticisms and an old limerick,* quoted Bernard Shaw, Artistotle Browning, and La Rochefoucauld. The political pattern of Stevenson's speeches was clear: he was mainly running against President Herbert Hoover...
...agreed to disagree in the 1952 election. Some are working for Stevenson, some for Ike and some are following the example of the boss, Senator Harry F. Byrd, who is "picking apples" and not saying how he will vote. If Byrd comes out strongly for either side, he will swing the state. If he stays neutral, Ike has an even chance...
Stevenson will tour New England the week after next in an effort to hold the electoral votes of Massachusetts and Rhode Island which Truman took in 1948 and swing others, particularly Connecticut, to the Democratic column...
...pollsters stopped polling too soon, thus missed the last-minute swing to Truman. One out of seven voters checked after the election said he had not made up his mind until the last moment...
Clearly the demons had to be exorcised. Grandier's enemies opened the exorcisms to the public, who were properly edified to watch the nuns scream, throw convulsions, expose their navels to the priests and to the crowd. At last, with the circus in full swing, word of it reached Richelieu. The order came quickly to arrest Grandier and try him for witchcraft...