Word: swingful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reason for the cautious steps was plain. Despite the hullabaloo over inflation, many a businessman knew that the threat of a recession is very real. No one wanted to swing the club on credit and risk killing the boom...
...that he intended to convert Czechoslovakia into a one-party (Communist) state. But between plan and fulfillment stood next May's elections, in which Communists have set out to win an absolute (51%) majority. Last week, with voting six months away, Gottwald's campaign was in shrill swing...
...vote in Czechoslovakia's last election (TIME, June 10, 1946). Since then he had, in fact, been losing ground. Soviet failure to deliver promised goods, particularly bread grain, on promised schedule, increased the heat and frequency of criticism leveled at Gottwald and the Kremlin. The swing away from Gottwald reached a peak when the Social Democrats, by secret ballot, bounced their pro-Communist leader Zdenek Fierlinger out of his job and installed Bohumil Lausman in his place. No rabid antiCommunist, Lausman nevertheless believes that Czechoslovakia should come first. The seams of Gottwald's National Front began popping rivets...
...Service" finds a doctor bound and gagged in the bathroom, Harpo Marx chasing a turkey around the hotel room, and Groucho and Chicho browbeating a timid lawyer into signing a $15,000 check. In a matter of minutes Harpo accompanies the other two on the harmonica as they sing "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" over the body of a possum-playing playwright. All this and love interest too is entrenched at Boston's citadel of slapstick, the Laffmovie...
...Hampshire's Senator Charles Tobey let go a rebel blast against the do-nothing, anti-everything politics of Republican National Chairman B. Carroll Reece. But bumbling Carroll Reece, who has Bob Taft's powerful support, appeared to be in ho danger. The insurgent New England Senators swing little weight around party headquarters...