Word: swing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this week with a brand-new vernacular. In a pre-game TV interview with Manager Casey Stengel, big, ham-handed Dizzy Dean boomed: "You ain't a-woofin' about that, brother!" The fans also noted, for future reference, that the Arkansas-born announcer conjugates the verb to swing as swing, swanged, swunged...
...months, Arkansas Democrat William J. Fulbright has been gathering evidence for a full-scale investigation of RFC by his Senate banking subcommittee. Last week, as his committee began hearings, it looked as though he had struck pay dirt at the first swing of his pick. The case was that of the Texmass Petroleum Co., an oil outfit which got authorization for a $10,100,000 loan from RFC in 1949. The money has not yet been paid out and Senator Fulbright hoped he could prevent its ever being drawn...
...when he reaches the bench is to pick up one of his bats. Awaiting his turn in the batting-practice cage, he looks as enthusiastic as he was at 14, and more so than he ever seems in the outfield. His level eyes take in each pitch and every swing...
...railroadmen, who have long complained about "unfair" competition from trucks, sat back and applauded last week as the truckers got a roundhouse swing from a not-so-neutral corner. Westinghouse Electric Corp.'s Vice President Andrew H. Phelps called the truckers' use of public highways "transportation by taxation," warned that truck lines "can ruin but not replace rail service." From now on, said Phelps, Westinghouse, which spends $40 million a year on transportation, will always ship by rail except when the truckers offer bargains in rates which the rails decline to meet. One probable reason for the announcement...
...letter to the London Times, Cameron said: "We have now set the precedent for the purge-by-Press, which [can only end] in a race of people talking behind their hands, knowing that the words they said yesterday, in a very different world mood, are the words they may swing for tomorrow...