Word: swingful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prime Minister Sjahrir had to face a plenary session of his government's 240-man "National Committee," convince extremists that it was still worth-while to dicker with the Dutch for self-government under a United Nations trusteeship, with guaranteed independence to follow later. Even if Sjahrir could swing his Committee, the Dutch were not likely to agree to such a plan...
...Liberals: "The era of antifascism should end, giving way to a new, peaceful constructive era of post-fascism. . . ." Protested Christian Democrat leader Alcide de Gasperi: "Fascism will never happen again. Never." Growled Pietro Nenni's Socialists: Italian reaction, egged on by Anglo-American capital, was plotting to swing Italy back to the old conservatism...
Margaret Truman, swinging a bottle of champagne against a plane's hull to inaugurate American Overseas Airlines' Washington-to-London commercial flights, scored a splashing smash on the third swing (her mother hammered a hull nine times last spring and finally gave...
With counter-radar in full swing, a major raid on Europe became a complex business. Decoy planes dropped streamers of Window, filling the scopes of the Nazis' early-warning radars with swarms of imaginary bombers. From the cliffs of England, Tuba boomed its blasts, adding to the confusion. As the column of bombers swept toward Germany, Carpet cheeped from every plane, dazzling the Wurzburgs, while more puffs of glittering Window covered the sky with phantoms...
...full and so are two new tourist courts with a capacity of 200. Many arthritics, unable to find room in Tombstone, motor the 72 miles from Tucson or the 20-odd miles from Bisbee and Benson to take the treatment. The old Crystal Palace Bar is in full swing and sick people wander around visiting the site of the OK Corral and gawking at Million Dollar Stope, a caved-in mine near the middle of town...