Word: swing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Interests. Cutting across all party lines are the special interests, which flourish in a body where a government's very life depends on the swing of 10 or 20 votes. Biggest is the alcohol lobby, which keeps French winegrowers, beet farmers and distillers producing twice the alcohol the French can drink and forces the government to buy the surplus at four times the world price. The North African lobby, run by Senator Henri Borgeaud, took alarm when Mendès tried to reduce the colons' control of the local police. As a result, Algeria's Rene Mayer...
...same 1,750-yd. slide last week. They whisked through the same series of neck-snapping, bowl-banked curves, navigated the hairpin turn called Sunny Corner, swooped through the Horseshoe, rolled into "Shamrock" and "Devil's Dyke," slithered and bounced past the checkpoint called Tree, turned right to swing beneath a railway bridge and shot toward the finish line at better than 70 miles an hour. However their techniques varied, every team at St. Moritz had one thing more in common: they all rode sleds built by the defending bobsled champion, Switzerland's Fritz Feierabend...
...will suffer certain physiological and psychological changes after seeing this week's film at the Brattle. With legs a trifle bowed, your stride will be longer and your weight better balanced for that tiger-like spring into action of which you are, no doubt, totally incapable. Your arms will swing free, hands near your hips for the lightning draw, and the dangerous glint in your steely eyes will warn the world that here is a real mean...
...rodders' wives, G.M.'s Frigidaire division showed off a "kitchen of tomorrow." At the touch of a button, chopping boards and ovens swing into convenient reach, knives are practically handed to the cook. Cooking surfaces fold back into the wall when not in use, hard-to-reach shelves glide down to shoulder level at the touch of a hand, refrigerators automatically serve cold water, ice cubes or crushed ice. On one side of the kitchen there is a "home-planner's desk" with a TV set that can be tuned so the housewife can peer into...
...83rd year, Bertrand Arthur William, Earl Russell is busier taking up old stances than throwing fresh philosophical punches. For one brief moment in the preface of his latest book Human Society in Ethics and Politics, the old philosopher gets set to floor all previous Russells with one haymaking swing. He quotes with approval a famous epigram of David Hume: "Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions." Though he claims to believe this, Russell, like Philosopher Hume, is not entirely happy about it, and proves it by launching into his favorite fable-how sweet Grandmother Reason...