Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Taft bandwagon was ready for a threeday, 500-mile swing through 20 cities and towns. With most voters thinking about the March 17 income-tax deadline, Bob Taft will dwell on two of his favorite subjects: Government extravagance and high taxes. As the Ohio Senator campaigns, 26 strategically-placed billboards will call attention to Ike's non-campaigning status: "We're for Taft because we know what he stands...
...what he will do. In 1948 he let his name go before the convention, and got 263 votes. But he refused to join the Dixiecrats' post-convention bolt. After a 1952 convention defeat, the Southern Democrats could again try a third party, or they could try to swing the South to the Republican side. Unless the G.O.P. nominee is Dwight Eisenhower, the second course is no more likely than the first...
...story of surprises-and the biggest surprise may be still to come. It can be viewed as a victory of human progress or as a bitter historical joke-the joke being that when the American income tax began, the mass of American voters thought they were taking a swing at a fellow named Pierpont or Cornelius. The blow, in full and crushing measure, now lands each March 15 on the chin of a fellow named John...
...Easy Echo Fox Foxtrot George Golf How Hotel Item India Jig Juliett King Kilo Love Lima Mike Metro Nan Nectar Oboe Oscar Peter Papa Queen Quebec Roger Romeo Sugar Sierra Tare Tango Uncle Union Victor Victor William Whisky X Ray Extra Yoke Yankee Zebra Zulu The U.S. will probably swing over to the new words by 1952's fall. Until then, risking confusion, the American pilots can spell out messages by using either varia tion - viz., Jig or Juliett...
...fears that the U.S. might leave France alone with a rearmed Germany on its hands. But the United Press quickly knocked A.F.P.'s "scoop" in the head with an official U.S. denial, and opponents of the government began to wonder whether the story was a fake to swing votes...