Word: swing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About six miles away, however, the city of Mount Vernon has been trying for seven years to swing a referendum to build one large, or two smaller high schools. Within this period, the school board has held four referenda, each of which has been voted down, following an active campaign on the part of a non-parent citizens group claiming that the structure cost too much (and as each year passes the costs rise). In the last referendum in December, the organization also cried that the referendum, was scheduled during the week preceeding Christmas purposely to garner a small...
...neglect, real or imagined, of local economic problems was one of the major charges thrown at Vice President Nixon along with stones and spittle on his turbulent good-will swing through Latin America. After Nixon returned home, one of the main points in U.S. reappraisal of Latin American relations was that reasonable U.S. aid should be promptly and cheerfully given. Last week the U.S. cut through red tape and delay to lend Chile $25 million and Colombia $103 million...
...perfection of his pivot play, it lies in his powerful forearms and wrists. He merely snaps the ball toward first with a quick flick. At the plate, too, his wrists do most of the work. Now that he has smoothed the hitch out of his snappy little swing, his average has been steadily rising. In 1956, his first year with the Pirates, he hit .243. Last summer he worked up to .293. So far this season he is batting...
What Galbraith says about the lack of parking places will hardly be news to Americans. Nor will anyone argue with the need for better schools, parks, sanitation systems, traffic control. But having pointed his bat at the bleachers, Galbraith steps away from the plate. He never takes a full swing at drafting the program that he implies: that the state, local and federal governments must take a larger role in society. What Galbraith suggests concretely is much more conservative. He believes that the economy can absorb up to 4,000,000 unemployed, proposes a sliding scale for unemployment compensation...
...every Pepsi fan knows, behind every successful man (Pepsi's 1958 earnings are up), there is a devoted woman-one with more bounce to the ounce. This week, their apartment decorated and their debts to Pepsi paid, Mr. and Mrs. Steele were planning a six-weeks sales swing through Africa and the Middle East. Said he: "I hate to use my wife to help me sell, but let's face it-she does. On these trips most of our business is done through top officials of governments. At those high levels Crawford is fabulous...