Word: swing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McCarran angrily refused to comment. McCarran, 76, was expected to swing his Democratic machine behind the Republican incumbent, Senator George ("Molly") Malone...
...many nations streamed gaily from each two-decker tram. Shop windows glittered with Scottish silver and tartans. Even dour taxi drivers got into the spirit of the thing and gave unsolicited lectures on local points of interest. The sixth Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama was in full swing...
...Society of London, Anatomist W. E. Le Gros Clark of Oxford adds new details to his theory that fossil primates (Proconsuls) found in Kenya show more manlike than apelike characteristics. They have no "simian shelf" (bony reinforcing) in the lower jaws, and their limbs suggest that they did not swing through the trees. Such ape traits were probably developed by specialization later than Proconsul's time...
Stevenson had scarcely boarded the plane which took him back to Illinois when Dwight Eisenhower used the briefing session as evidence in support of the two main G.O.P. campaign charges: 1) that Stevenson is a Truman puppet; 2) that Truman will swing the Government's weight behind the Democratic candidate. The Stevenson briefing session, said Ike, "implied a decision to involve responsible nonpolitical officers of our Government . . . in a political campaign . . ." It also raised a question "as to whether the President and his Cabinet can possibly contemplate using the resources of the Federal Government to influence the judgements...
...shaped and equipped with stops. Properly manipulated, the bleater emits a "pia" like the cry of a newborn roe; it also trills a realistic "fiep," simulating the call of a doe in rut. The bleater instruction sheet suggests that the hunter render the fiep with "trembling hands," then promptly swing his gun to his shoulder and brace himself for the charge of a romantic roebuck...