Word: swing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thus, a swing to the Tories of a small fraction of the British electorate in marginal constituencies was enough to jump their Commons majority from 53 to 100 seats. Liberals, on the strength of their 1,600,000 popular vote, forecast with eager optimism that they would soon succeed Labor as the chief opposition party -a prediction that overlooked the fact that more than 40% of British voters stuck by Labor through the sweep. But the fact remained that for Britain's 53-year-old Labor Party it was a staggering defeat, threatening to open never-healed wounds, confronting...
...Russians predicted that Lunik would swing back toward the earth, passing 25,000 miles away (v. 26,400 miles maximum for the U.S.'s paddle-wheel satellite.) Then it will revolve around the earth for an indefinite period, moving out beyond the moon's orbit in a long ellipse and taking about 15 days to complete a full circuit. The plane of its ellipse is not the same as that of the moon's orbit but is nearly perpendicular...
Wall Street's bull market has also brought other troubles-among them the revival of the oldtime boiler shop.* Most boiler shops are hit-and-run operations that fold up before the SEC can swing into action. But in the past year the commission, largely through its New York regional office under Paul Windels Jr., has cracked down hard. In fiscal 1959, the SEC's total number of injunctions against brokers and security dealers doubled over the previous year to in, and its number of criminal actions tripled to 45. "We'd do more," says SEC Chairman...
...Sputnik I proclaimed the beginning of the space age, the U.S.S.R. celebrated the anniversary by announcing a far more advanced step into space: a rocket shot that this week sent a 600-lb. instrumented payload hurtling into space on a trajectory calculated to curve around the moon and swing back toward the earth. The moon probe (see SCIENCE) required a rocket thrust of at least 600,000 Ibs., twice the thrust of the U.S.'s most powerful rocket engine. The Soviet feat was all the more embarrassing to the U.S. because U.S. spacemen had been forced to postpone their...
...After a swing through northern and western Honduras, 45 priests (from nine religious orders in six Latin American countries and Spain), who came to reinforce the local clergy, will move on next month to prepare for a similar blitz effort in neighboring Nicaragua. Said President Villeda Morales: "We reiterate our determination to put into divine hands the destiny of Honduras." Pope John XXIII declared that from the new dedication "the graces of heaven have been falling in torrents on your souls...