Word: swing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas, Playwright Robert Sherwood, Historian Carl Van Doren, Commentator Raymond Swing, and Cass Canfield, chairman of the board of Harper's, which published Streit's book...
...home from the villa in Lausanne, Switzerland to which he went two months after his brother's death. Three times something (a Siamese coup, an automobile accident or a mere change of plans) had interfered. Meanwhile, as the King spent his days going to school, organizing a swing band, tinkering with his cameras and driving his cars from Switzerland to Paris, royal duties piled up in Bangkok...
...postwar Europe Hughes finds the "Third Force" movements in France, Germany, and Italy losing strength to the conservatives; only the possible disapproval of American public opinion holds off a swing to the right. Meanwhile in the United States there may be a tendency for the "sophisticated conservatives" of government, labor, and business to coalesce in the direction of corporateness...
...Labor losses were probably part of the same swing which had brought about socialist defeats in Australia, New Zealand and on the continent of Europe. ¶ Both the British Laborites and Tories soft-pedaled the issue of government-owned industry. Nevertheless, in Britain, there was and still is a vague disappointment with the results of nationalization and it is highly probable that this was a hidden, but important, factor in Labor's loss of steam. ¶| Both parties promised to continue a state welfare program, which is undeniably popular with the mass of Britons. But the Labor Party...
Meanwhile, the A.M.A. Journal took a roundhouse swing at the huckster tactics ("Kills Colds in Hours!", "Safe Even for Children") now being used to peddle anti-histaminic "cold cures." Sales of the drugs in 1950 may reach $100 million, it is estimated-"a plum for those who want to pluck it... The possibilities for exploitation seem almost unlimited. Drivel such as some of the [advertising] pleas for over-the-counter anti-histaminics should not be thrust on the American public. There is a limit to what the public should be asked to swallow...