Word: swing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last minute attempt to swing the votes last night, Democratic state chairman William H. Burke, Jr. endorsed the drive for the "favorite son" candidacy of McCormack...
...continues, "we have ten baseball fields across the River for intramural play, but only three are operative. This means postponements and overcrowded schedules later that may cause cancellations, to say nothing of the fact that some boys can't get their exercise." The program may get into full swing next week, however...
...either plain or mad. Against the wishes of some of his California campaign chiefs, he canceled his planned vacation in the South and flew west to head off Estes Kefauver. By the time he landed in Los Angeles, just 18 hours after Kefauver had finished a six-day swing down the state, Adlai was talking his version of Estes' language. "I'm an underdog," he said, "who has come back to his native city to do some barking...
...Thought for a minute that it was going to see a fist fight between Ohio's Democratic Representative Wayne Hays and New Jersey's Democratic Representative Alfred Sieminski. Trouble started when Hays accused Lieut. General (ret.) Joseph M. Swing, the U.S. Immigration Commissioner, of "arrogance," said he had been warned not to cross Swing lest the commissioner interfere with Hays's efforts to get citizenship for his adopted two-year-old German daughter. Cried Hays: "I will guarantee that if he did try that, when I got him face to face he would not be physically able...
...show, carried by CBS and ABC, had a cast headed by singers Tony Martin, Marion Marlowe and Martha Wright, who set the mood of remembrance with snapshots of Mamie over the years. Their songs, her favorites, were Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, I Dreamt that I Dwelt in Marble Halls, Lovely Lake Geneva, The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise, Down Among the Sheltering Palms (as a dance team dressed as Mamie and Ike, pre-World War 1, cut figures on the screen), Till We Meet Again, Tiptoe Through the Tulips, I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy, Wunderbar...