Word: swing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stick by their leader's founding dictum: in modern Turkey "state and religion must be separate." Then dapper, driving Premier Adnan Menderes, trying to whip up popular support to offset rising big-city discontent with his extravagant inflationary policies (TIME, Oct. 24), took off on a speech-making swing through his Anatolian farm-country strongholds. At Konya, in the wheat-growing heart of what Istanbul calls the Koran belt, he blurted out the most direct pitch yet for the prayer-rug vote by a leader of modern Turkey: "If there are no courses on religion in our schools...
Welles vowed that he would play out the run of Lear, "if they have to swing me over the stage with wire." Then he agreed to an audience request that he tell the story of Lear, acting the King's part. He interrupted his little concert only once -to apologize for having made a mistake in the text. "I'm terribly nervous," he said, "but I know why I made that mistake." Then he said to someone in the first row center: "Please don't take pictures. That clicking noise sounds like the breaking of bones...
Reality Revealed. Ironically, the election did not indicate a swing of opinion; it only revealed the reality of the French political complexion-a reality that had been successfully concealed for nearly five years by the elaborate electoral system of "alliances" that the French had devised in 1951 to defeat the extremes of Gaullism and Communism. This time the cen ter was so divided that alliances became impossible...
Penn and Army each swing on a confirmed star and, especially in the case of the more secretive Cadets, may spring soem surprises with swimmers they haven't yet fully tested in public...
...Bricker as a favorite-son candidate in the state's presidential primary. Bricker, accepting, said he would switch the Ohio delegation to Eisenhower if the President decides to run. But if Ike does not stand for reelection, the favorite-son device would give Bricker a chance to swing his state's 56 convention votes to a candidate of his liking, such as Bill Knowland-or maybe even in a serious bid by John W. Bricker (who settled for the nomination for Vice President...