Word: swing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greatest problems so far has been in changing the newcomers' basic strokes from tennis to squash, not a difficult feat, but one requiring constant practice to overcome the tendency to swing with the whole...
...lighten taxation on U.S. firms doing business in Latin America, thus encouraging more investment there. ¶ Later in January, in a major speech on TV, Milton Eisenhower will make an "encouraging appraisal" of the effects to date of the recommendations that he made late in 1953, after a swing through South America. The President's brother had urged 1) stockpiling of basic commodities to stabilize the economies of producing nations, 2) grants of food in emergencies...
...Germans went after their share of the trade by ingenious bartering agreements signed with eleven countries. No hard and fast commitment, each bilateral trade agreement simply budgets an equal two-way trade for a year, usually with an arrangement for "swing" credit if either of the contracting nations fails to fill its quota. Bartering is a step away from free trade, which German Minister of Economy Ludwig Erhard ardently urges. But he goes along with it because, by skirting present currency shortages and exchange difficulties, it works...
...proof of God in the Bible (or other church authority), 4) Past experiences in life give me faith that there is a God, 5) Believing in God gives me much comfort." The Heart Strangely Warmed. In favoring the argument based on order in the universe, Americans chart a new swing of an old pendulum. Medieval man also saw God in the order of things, but his universe fitted snugly around him, with the world at the center. Outside the world and inside his head, logic ruled. St. Thomas Aquinas formulated his five famed proofs of God's existence with...
...Line. To swing the deal, McMahon was aided by some potent allies. El Paso Natural Gas wanted Canadian gas brought in to prolong the life of the San Juan Basin. Californians, whose daily gas consumption (1,400,000,000 cu. ft.) is growing 11% yearly, were worried that 2,800,000 new gas customers in the Northwestern U.S. would exhaust San Juan, thus shut off California's major source. Phillips Petroleum Co., which has big gas reserves in San Juan, also has gas-fields in Peace River that it wants to open...