Word: swing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...airbase in Northern Ireland and streaked westward, outrunning the thunder of its twin jets. Soaring to 41,000 ft., the R.A.F.'s Canberra raced the sun above it. Four hours and 40 minutes later, it skimmed down to Newfoundland's Gander field. The sun had made the swing in only 3½ hours. But the Canberra, averaging 445 m.p.h., had made the fastest Atlantic crossing ever, the hard way-30 minutes faster than a Mosquito bomber's five hours and ten minutes made from west to east with the prevailing winds...
Complaint & Gratitude. In 1948, European Jews outnumbered Orientals four to one. Last year the balance began to swing the other way round: 60% of the immigrants were Orientals. The percentage will go much higher...
This week Edward Miller, the U.S.'s fast-stepping Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, is off on another quick swing around his circuit. In a 20-day South American tour, he will pay an official visit to Brazil's new Foreign Minister Joāo Neves da Fontoura, represent the U.S. at the inauguration of Uruguay's President Andrés Martinez Trueba, attend the Pan American Olympic games at Buenos Aires, address the U.N. Economic and Social conferences at Santiago, and pay a courtesy call in Lima...
...BOSS. It said, "The influenza bug ... can unseat the government any day . . . Government by influenza is the latest phase of a year in which Mr. Attlee has hung on to power by six votes." A greater threat to the government than influenza is an increasing public swing to the right. The latest British Gallup poll showed last week that the government has the backing of only 38% of the electorate compared to 43% two months ago and 46% four months ago. Tory support has increased from 44% four months ago to 51%. One reason for the anti-Labor trend: enforced...
Until last week, museums were generally unkind to Thomas Hart Benton and Benton was unkind to museums. They resemble graveyards, he remarked ten years ago, "run by a pretty boy with delicate wrists and a swing in his gait . . . Nobody goes to museums. I'd like to sell [my paintings] to saloons...