Word: swing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...father-in-law, Fletcher Bronson, of Monticello, Utah, paid $1,000 for 500 acres of copper-mining property in southwestern Utah. They soon regretted the investment: the copper ore was so heavily contaminated with uranium that nobody wanted to process it. Then the atomic age got into swing, and Cooper and the Bronson family forgot all about copper. Their Happy Jack mine never had a waste dump, because every pound of rock dug up was commercial-grade ore. Last week Cooper, now 45, and the Bronsons decided that the mine was too big for them to develop with their limited...
During the next six days, Boulat took 2,000 pictures, rushing about Moscow as though he were "shooting a series of rooms whose doors were just about to swing shut." When he came to photograph interiors of the Kremlin, the spirit of Geneva blew a fuse: he got a flat refusal on the excuse that he had insufficient equipment -even though he had six cameras, electronic flashguns and enough lighting gear to illuminate the Kremlin's largest chambers. But the pictures he came back with added up to an exclusive color portfolio for this week's report...
Independents John Lynch and Thomas McNamara agreed that the mayor will be an independent, but Lynch asserted that, whatever the independents decide, a subsequent offer of four CCA votes might swing the election. "It's dog eat dog," said Lynch, "everyone wants the job and it's going to be real rough to settle on one of the pack...
When he made his aerial inspection proposal last July, the President gained a considerable backing from world opinion. Now that Russia has refused to cooperate with his July plan, he should swing his support to the U.N. Such a policy could have even better propaganda value. Even though Moscow went on record in the U.N. last week against altering the Charter at any time, the Administration ought to press for a review conference. Instead of championing a vague "prelude" to disarmament it could then deal with the question directly...
...course, only the beginning. Evelyn "forgave him," and ran happily down the primrose path with her "Stanny," who pushed his "Kittens" on a red velvet swing in the "play" room, hung her in costly deshabille, and had the little beauty snapped while lying odaliciously on a polar-bear rug. "He was a brilliant, kind and fascinating man," Evelyn said later. "He showed me a new world of art and beauty...