Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there is every indication that there will be for a year or so anyway an increased demand for goods, certainly as long as public funds last and public projects are spending at the present rate or the accelerated rate that will come when the program is in full swing...
...Mosley, leader of Britain's Fascist Black Shirts, a man '"willing to act with the same directness of purpose and energy of method as Mussolini and Hitler have displayed." Predicted Lord Rothermere who has long felt like playing Dictator himself: ''There will be a prolonged swing either to the Right or Left. At the next vital election, Britain's survival as a great power will depend on the existence of a well-organized party of the Right...
...over the taffrail and cheered themselves hoarse while the seven little boats skidded at 35 knots, like terriers around a cow, closer and closer to the great ship in an effort to sweep the mud away with their wash. They made tremendous waves but the only result was to swing the Nelson still more firmly on the bank and completely wreck the pontoon bridge between Portsmouth and Gosport, three-quarters of a mile away...
...these communications was prodigious, but not so prodigious as the cloudburst of bills released by the Senators themselves- mostly individual relief and pension measures. The most arresting example of Senatorial bravura occurred not inside but outside the Senate. Louisiana's blatant Long thought he had taken a wide swing to the Left when he introduced a resolution for Senate legislation which would allow no citizen to keep more than $1,000,000 of his income, or to receive bequests totaling more than $5,000,000, or to possess an estate of more than $50,000,000. This proposal sounded...
...tossed an issue to the Republicans. Well does President Roosevelt know the danger of lacking an opposition. An Administration without an opposition may lead an easier life, but when pent up feelings swing against it, it dies a dreadful death...