Word: swing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...triumphant singing swing through Southeast Asia, velvet-voiced Contralto Marian Anderson has played to capacity houses at all stops, wowed audiences with her versatile concert program-German lieder, Italian classics...
...important Republicans: the late Senator Taft, Thomas Dewey and Milton Eisenhower. His appointment was also very advantageous to the Republican Party in the West. The Mormons are heavily concentrated in Utah, Arizona, Idaho, and Southern California and in most other Western states they form a minority significant enough to swing many elections. The political wisdom of the Republican move was borne out in the 1956 campaign when the Mormon areas of the West voted more heavily for Eisenhower than in 1952, in contrast to the rest of the West...
Robert Frost intones flippantly in his latest attempt to still the clatter of the Machine Age and to put man in his proper place. Summer Slichter, not in the realm of morality, but certainly in the musty halls of tradition, takes a well-aimed iconoclastic swing at Keynesian economics. If his argument is not convincing to the conditioned minds of the New Deal, it represents a refreshing conservatism, too seldom well expounded...
...went in 1952 to G.O.P. Behind-the-Scenes-Expert Herb Brownell, whom he knew only casually, and volunteered to work for Dwight Eisenhower in the pre-convention campaign. While in Chicago Rogers also caught the eye of Richard Nixon, went along with the vice-presidential candidate on a Western swing, was with him when the news broke that Nixon was the beneficiary of a trust fund put up for him by California admirers. Preparing for his "Checkers" television explanation to the nation, Nixon used Rogers as a sounding board. Said Nixon later: "In that talk, Bill was advising...
...hasty about showdowns. Let's be patient and confident with our country." As optimistic as he is individualistic, Robert Frost summed up his poet's-eye view of the U.S.: "I stand here at the window and try to figure out whether American men or women swing their arms more freely. There cannot be much to fear in a country where there are so many right faces going by. I keep asking myself where they all come from, and I keep thinking that maybe God was just making them up new around the next corner...