Word: swingeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trade specialist, journeyed up to the Baltic seaports to demand to know why East Germany has made good only a third of its scheduled heavy-goods deliveries to Russia in the first half of 1957. Nikita Khrushchev and Ulbricht took the main show southward on a three-day swing through the Saxon farmland. A state-run corn farm delighted him; he pointed to stalks 9 ft. high, and recommended the "king of the plants" to East Germans as "sausage on a stalk...
...that Batista and Castro supporters agree on many economic issues. Though the men who drop the bombs are often wild young radicals, the brains and money behind the movement come from a group of conservative business and professional men. They want free elections, but insist they intend no swing toward the left. Said one such Castro supporter: "This year I have earned more money than ever before in my life. This has left my mind at ease so I could concentrate on my revolutionary work...
What Bill Knowland did not realize was the essential infirmity of his "sure" votes. A handful of moderates in both parties-enough to swing the scales-still had serious doubts over the complex legal problem of jury trials in contempt cases. Massachusetts' Democrat Jack Kennedy had asked four Harvard law professors whether the concept of jury trials in criminal contempt cases was sound or not, received an unhelpful 2-2 reply...
Unable to have his way, Gaillard offered his resignation to President Coty, who had to put off his own holiday departure for the French Alps. For the final session at Bourgès-Maunoury's house in suburban Saint Germain, ex-Premier Guy Mollet was brought in to swing his Socialists into line. Then the Premier announced to the waiting reporters that 550 billion francs had been whacked off the estimates; over the weekend technicians would try to slice off the remaining 50 billion to satisfy Gaillard. The youngest Finance Minister promised to make his resignation "conditional," i.e., staying...
...significance. Tiny Nepal lies on a 4,000-ft.-to-9,000-ft. slope of the Himalayas between Red China and India, and is a pawn in the tense frontier rivalry between them. The Foreign Ministries in both countries last week probably had legitimate misgivings about how Singh will swing...