Word: swingeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into his greatest campaign with both feet. The first move: organization of a buttonholing, doorbell-punching Langlie-for-Senate committee in each of Washington's 39 counties. Last week these volunteers got the promise of valuable campaign assistance. In San Francisco, Eisenhower told Langlie that he intended to swing through Washington and Oregon before November...
...handles $500,000 worth of business a week. The town's four hotels (a fifth is building) seldom bother to take down their "no vacancy" signs, and their barrooms are perpetually jammed around the clock with unshaven miners and prospectors just in from the bush, and ready to swing a rock-hard fist at the drop of an insult...
...that time on his third pack of Old Golds, "that's all right if it's the best you can do. You can come along later−just for the ride. But just think how good you'll look back home if you can help swing this thing by leading the way, not following." The Maryland boys caught on fast...
Virginia (32): A probable early-ballot, unit-rule vote to Lyndon Johnson, with a later swing to Stevenson if the civil-rights plank seems satisfactory...
...because he promised to legalize outlawed parties. It was to crush APRA that Odria took over in 1948, but APRA leaders now claim that the party has outgrown its old socialistic, demagog ic, intolerant ways. If the party should again make itself too obnoxious to the army, a swing back to military rule would be all too probable...