Word: swingeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home from the campaign swing along the West Coast, President Eisenhower was handed a Teletype report from Secretary of State John Foster Dulles about the latest development in Poland, where nationalist-minded Communist leaders were defying the edicts of Moscow (see FOREIGN NEWS). In Denver, the President studied fresh messages, made a brief airport speech, talked long-distance to Dulles, and instructed Press Secretary James Hagerty to issue a statement warmly sympathizing with traditional Polish yearning for liberty and independence...
...Swing to Ike. By 1951 unorthodox Leo Heogh was pushing for Eisenhower for President in a state where the Republican leaders were strong for Ohio's Senator Robert Taft. He had seen General Eisenhower in Europe during the war. "I was impressed by Ike because he asked questions," says Hoegh. "He wanted to find out what was on people's minds. And he had an open mind of his own." Hoegh was a key tactician in a group of younger Republicans who swung a majority of Iowa's delegates to Eisenhower on the first ballot...
...base. While the crowd watched tensely, the Dodgers put up their 27th batter. Pinch Hitter Dale Mitchell. He took a ball, then a called strike, missed a curve for strike two. He fouled another off and settled grimly in the batter's box. Larsen pitched. Mitchell checked his swing, watched the third strike whiz by. The crowd let out its breath and roared. Yogi Berra leaped into Larsen's arms. Don Larsen had pitched the first perfect major-league no* hitter in 34 years, and the first no-hitter-of any kind in World Series history...
Opportunity eyeballs the young radical (or reactionary) in the face. With the political campaign about to swing into its last phase, undergraduate enthusiasm can at last find an adequate form of expression. Those who as freshmen once pined for excitement might well join the Students for Stevenson, the Harvard Young Democrats, the Harvard Liberal Union (and the Harvard Young Republicans) in attempts to sway the key Massachusetts vote one way (or the other...
...estimated that "roughly half" of these voters would go for Eisenhower again. "If the proportion holds until Election Day," he said, "it would give the President around 52% of the popular vote, even if all the voters who now say they are 'undecided' were to swing to Adlai Stevenson...