Word: swingeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reed was appointed by Franklin Roosevelt to the seat vacated by rock-ribbed conservative George Sutherland just after the downfall of F.D.R.'s court-packing plan. Through the years he seemed to swing from New Deal-type liberalism to the middle-of-the-road to a form of conservatism, but he insisted that the country was swinging, not he. Once the late Justice Robert H. Jackson twitted Reed on growing more conservative. "Either that," said Jackson, "or you're changing your law clerks, Stanley." Reed answered: "It must be the law clerks, because I haven't changed...
Hungary's revolt had thrown into doubt a scheduled Bulganin-Khrushchev swing through Scandinavia. Last week, as a sort of second best, B. and K. accepted an invitation to visit Finland in the spring. Cracked Khrushchev: "Spring is the best time of the year because love is then at its strongest." Meanwhile, Defense Minister Marshal Georgy Zhukov was visiting India. Although Nehru pointedly spent more time in the company of another visitor, his old friend Lady Mountbatten, Zhukov had a profitable week riding an elephant and showing Nehru's tough Indian cadets how to use a bayonet...
...pick the fastest (not always the shortest) route to the finish line. Sailer's word for his technique is Tuschen, a Kitzbühel slang term that may derive from the word for brush strokes in an ink drawing, and somehow seems to fit the smooth, effortless swing down the slopes to an endless list of championships...
...there now much point in railing against the President for failing to push his legislation. This is not the time for Presidential pressure, for the Republican Senators whose votes he can occasionally swing by personal influence are not the Senators who now control the fate of the civil rights bills...
Tribal Rite Playing a qualifying round on the rugged, wind-whipped links at Pebble Beach, Calif., a nervous young Nevada golf pro named Tony Lema tried too hard to recover from a bad lie, took a prodigious swing-and disappeared. He had fallen off an 18-ft. cliff. No one seemed surprised. This was the 16th annual performance of the West Coast tribal rite-complete with fairway high jinks and off-course bottle belting-known as the Bing Crosby National Pro-Amateur Golf Championship. Lema's leap was just the kind of accidental clowning that the crowd had come...