Word: swingeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...breakfast for 500 leading Los Angeles Republicans last week, President Eisenhower remarked: "I am going to appear before another audience who are not going to be nearly so friendly." Then he drove out Wilshire Boulevard to address the American Federation of Labor convention, which had just taken a roundhouse swing at his Administration...
Riding on Willie's power, the Giants romped to a big lead over the second-place Dodgers. Then Willie stopped swinging for the long ball ("I strike out too much when I swing hard"), settled instead for singles and doubles. Still, the Giants stayed in first place...
...Cincinnati was Vice President Richard Nixon. "I do not come to you terribly optimistic or terribly pessimistic," said the Vice President to the Republican braves. "I think that this election is extremely close. We Republicans are behind in the House; it is extremely close in the Senate. The swing is against the party in power...
...saxes, and features a socking four-beat rhythm (often whacked out on a cowbell). Said one Boston onlooker: "It's more graceful than jitterbugging, but it's less inhibited. It can be adapted to any style. It's greater than the Charleston, greater than swing...
...first vacation as Secretary, after the hard-driving Alaskan swing, McKay went on a hard-riding packhorse trip in California's Yosemite National Park (part of Interior's domain). For five days McKay, wearing a comfortable cowboy outfit, roughed it frontier-style-riding the steep Sierra trail, cooking in the open, camping out at night. This week, at his summer house on the Oregon coast, he relaxed with his family (13 in all, with Mabel McKay cooking...