Word: swingeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into the beer-and-Braves tumult of Milwaukee, Wis. one day last week roared Harry Truman, ready to start Round One of his battle for Adlai Stevenson. With one Truman-type swing, he hit his own party's cause just above the belt. He sat down at a TV panel show with Dr. Anthony T. Bouscaren, professor of political science at Marquette University...
...preparing to launch probably the most strenuous political campaign any Republican has ever waged. Flying in a chartered DC-6B, accompanied by his wife and a four-man staff, he will travel 14,136 miles, visit 32 states, make 50 speeches in three weeks. What he learns on this swing will do much to determine the size and shape of the Republican campaign during October and the first week in November...
When Communists want to speed production in their factories, they swing a spotlight onto especially eager worker's, called Stakhanovites, whose example sets the pace for higher production targets and individual output "norms." Last week in Rumania the abnormal norms of Stakhanovite Lathe Operator Constantin Vasilache established what ought to be a Stakhanovite record for all satelliteland. In August, it was announced, Hero of Socialist Labor Vasilache turned out work equal to six times his norm every day. Vasilache totted up past performances and reported proudly in Rominia Libera: "Thanks to these accomplishments, I was able to start work...
...with saturation broadcasting: they will put Adlai Stevenson's Harrisburg, Pa. oration over all three networks and some 1,800 "blind" area stations. The G.O.P., understandably, is picking its stations, buying little time in the South (one exception: North Carolina, which has 175,000 Negro voters who might swing to Eisenhower...
...only "five or six" televised speeches. But, as Ike himself pointed out last week, there are "a number of invitations you have to consider," and so far his TV plans have not firmed up. Early next month Nixon will make his first national telecast, reporting on his upcoming swing through 32 states...