Word: swingeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marino arises from the fact that, of San Marino's 6,700 eligible male voters, some 1,700 live out of the country, mostly as migrant laborers. By paying round-trip fares for many of these expatriates at election time, the Communists rounded up enough votes to swing into power...
...launching last week of the Navy's second atomic submarine at Groton, Conn., 20,000 guests crowded into the Electric Boat shipyard and a Congressman's lady, Mrs. W. Sterling Cole of Bath, N.Y. cried, "I christen thee Seawolf.* Before she could swing the traditional champagne bottle, the sleek, 3,000-ton sub began sliding down the ways. To superstitious seamen, a botched christening means bad luck, but Elizabeth Cole made a last-second pitch, the twelve-ounce bottle of California champagne shattered, and bubbles splashed satisfactorily over the Seawolf's beflagged...
...RENE MACCOLL, in the London DAILY EXPRESS, after a swing around...
...Utah one day in 1912, a convicted murderer named J. J. Morris was told he must choose how to die: he could be executed by firing squad, the officers told him, or he could swing by the noose. "Which will cost the State of Utah more?" asked the murderer. "Hanging," came the sepulchral reply. "Hang me," cried J. J. Morris. "I want the best Utah...
Confidential and its imitators came from one of the imitators, Top Secret. Said Top Secret: "How cunningly the smear is constructed. It says nothing with finality. It doesn't come right out and claim . . . Everything is left neatly up in the air, letting the heavy steel wrecking ball swing freely, hit as it may and where...