Word: swing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Derby by-election. "A significant straw," the politicos called it, for West Derby symbolizes Britain's even political balance: able Sir David Maxwell Fyfe held onto the seat for the Conservatives so narrowly in the 1951 general election that the Socialists needed only a 1.7% swing to win this year...
...does something more: Ideal's Betsy Wetsy ($5.98) not only drinks, wets, weeps, coos and sleeps, but also blows her nose, helped by a quick squeeze of her middle. Robert the Robot, an Ideal flashing-eyed mechanical monster ($5.95), can be made to move forward and back, swing its arms and recite: "I'm Robert the Robot, the Mechanical Man." Ideal also has a "radio"-equipped FBI car that broadcasts "Calling all cars . . ." Among electric trains, the newest is Toyland Products' train for three-to six-year-olds. It consists of a string of wooden cars, driven...
...implemented, the new plan would swing delegates' attention from constructive action to the petty intrigue of national rivalry. For, while an individual can make the concessions necessary to reach agreement on issues, the same grants would mean loss of face to a national representative. Although spokesmen for Moscow now pattern their views on the narrow interests of their particular countries, this minority of bound votes is too small to effect the group's supranational outlook. In seeking to bind all of the delegates to national interests, the United States may be stifling one of the UN's most effective commissions...
After circling the Yard several times, the band will march across Massachusetts Avenue, down Holyoke St., and then turn left on Mt. Auburn. It will proceed on Mt. Auburn and Bow past Adams House, and then swing down DeWolfe St. toward Leverett and Dunster...
...highly sensitive explosive. As the camera grinds away at men and officers, it also grinds into the moviegoer's face the long, quiet pain of existing beneath a higher purpose. The work consoles what the isolation irks in the characters, but between the two, they swing in the nervous, short moods of men without women...