Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Where Is Fine? The delegates were impressed. The Pennsylvania delegation now contains at least 25 fairly solid Ike votes, while Taft has 15 fairly solid promises. If Fine decides to swing to Ike he would have 55 of his delegates with him; if he swings to Taft, he would have only about 45. But which way will he swing...
Most Democrats spend their time these days swapping rumors, gleefully watching the Republicans heave invective at one another, and waiting for the party leadership to swing its decisive blocs of uncommitted delegates to a specific candidate. Not so the Democratic Party's hopefuls. Last week the three leading contenders of the moment were busily beating the bushes across the land in hopes of flushing a few stray delegates, and perhaps of catching the bosses' eyes...
...Leaners. While the primary thus changed the focus on Warren and Knowland, it only fuzzed the picture on the route California's 70 delegates will follow after Warren releases them. Warren," partly in answer to Werdel's deal charge, has insisted that he will not attempt to swing the delegates one way or another if he no longer has a chance to be nominated. But Warren is known to favor...
After two days in jail, spent mopping floors and getting his "aptitudes" tested, Wanger was sent off to the county's honor farm at Castaic, 50 miles from town. There he was put to work as a librarian. Between his bookish chores, Producer Wanger hoped to swing back into the old stride that had helped him turn out such hit movies as Algiers. His own occupational therapy project: working on a movie called Kansas and Pacific, which he plans to produce at Monogram after his release...
...what nonmaterial, saucerlike object can move quickly, silently, and in violent zigzags? One such thing is a spot of light. It is easy to swing the beam of a searchlight (across high clouds, for instance) and make its bright spot seem to travel at many thousand m.p.h. The spot of light moves silently and it can change direction as abruptly as any saucer...