Word: swingful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hyperthyroidism types are touchy, temperamental, "respond to the environment like an Aeolian harp." They are emotionally sensitive, and can be upset by harsh words or looks. Their moods swing so wildly between ecstasy and depression that they may become insane; many are artists, poets, actors, writers. They are emotionally immature, often sexually cold...
When his old friend Ed Martin asked him to help with the Martin campaign for governor in 1942, Jim Duff had long been neck-deep in Pennsylvania politics. As a delegate to the state convention in 1912, he helped swing Pennsylvania away from William Howard Taft and into Teddy Roosevelt's Bull Moose herd. He was a constant rebel against Joe Grundy's local and state machines; he remains a Bull Mooser to this...
...before a Temple University audience to throw his full weight behind the Marshall Plan. He jarred the old guard again by warning a P.M.A. dinner that the way to start fighting inflation was by cutting back prices. When he let it be known that he was getting ready to swing his convention support behind a candidate of his own choosing, the regulars reached for their knives...
...long run, De Gasperi knew that to prevent a swing to Communism he would need to deliver some promised reforms. The program he announced last week included general promises: land reform (distribution of big estates) and reclamation, stricter tax collections, relief for Italy's two million unemployed...
...Juan Fernandez Islands, 300 miles off the Chilean coast, the lobster season was in full swing. From now until August, the goletas (sloops) would bring into Valparaiso some 150,000 lobsters-the island's one cash crop. Shipped to Santiago or flown over the Andes to Buenos Aires, the langostas (unlike the Maine lobster, they are clawless) would bring fancy prices ($2 to $3) in the toniest restaurants of the Chilean and Argentine capitals...