Word: swing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind the wordy panoply of the United Nations General Assembly, the two big Western allies last week privately-and temporarily-patched up a fissure in their alliance. Britain agreed to swing over to the U.S. position for the "current year" and oppose all talk of Red China's admission to the U.N. It also switched to the U.S. side in the delicate U.N. struggle over Communist efforts to squeeze India and other neutralist-minded nations into the Korean peace conference...
...those rounds, Marciano appeared awkward, which he is. It may be his short arms that give him this uncoordinated look. Marciano edges into an opponent like an old man wading into ice cold surf. He lunges at his man and he misses often. Once the force of his own swing made him slip to the canvas...
Nixon, a duffer who quailed visibly when asked by cameramen to display his swing. By the time Ike flubbed a five-foot putt on the ninth hole, it looked as if things were back to normal in vacationland...
...also led the movement to establish the new German capital in his native Rhineland. "The future capital of Germany should be located among the vineyards," said he, "not in potato fields." One by one, Adenauer ticked off the other possibilities: Berlin-"a city where the monkeys still swing from the trees"; Frankfurt-"too immoral." Adenauer plumped for Bonn, which, conveniently, was within easy commuting distance from his home in Rhöndorf. As usual, he got what he wanted...
...John's first major challenge will be disposal of what he calls the "Big Seven," some of the biggest British steel firms.* So much capital will be required to buy their shares that only London's professional traders in the "City" (London's Wall Street) could swing it. Yet he must also guard against the shares falling into so few hands that cries of "monopoly" might arise. But Sir John is confident that the traders will buy the stock and meet their responsibilities in carrying off the return to free enterprise successfully. Says he: "The City knows...