Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Taft's Republican opponents get down to cases on why they think he can't beat a Democrat, they point to 1) labor opposition, and 2) foreign policy. The first is less important: 75% of the votes that labor leaders can swing against Taft can probably also be swung against Ike-or against any other Republican. The foreign-policy issue is more damaging. Taft is by no means an isolationist. His record indicates that, if he were President, he would try, in his own way, to build up the free world's cooperative strength against Communism...
...purpose of this proposed meeting will include giving the police an understanding of what is expected of them when they come to the Square for a disturbance of any sort. They will be told that it is not necessary to swing clubs over the heads of college students...
...hull in a single piece for added strength. It is designed with sloping sides to deflect enemy shells. The T-48's high-velocity 90-mm. gun has more punch than the 90-mm. mounted on some U.S. World War II tanks, and the gunner can swing on target with a new deadeye range finder...
Richort regards Timpson's swing to be the most compactly grooved on the team, and before the season opened predicted that he would do better than his early season ranking as seventh man indicated...
...Tatum, 42, the old master of the swing era, and a pair of smooth-sounding sidemen riffed through Sweet Sue and Sweet Lorraine. His right hand rippled all over the keyboard, but the overall effect was one of sophistication rather than pandemonium...