Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last month equipped only with old World War II tanks. At Cadillac's new Cleveland plant, many light T-41 Walker Bulldogs are standing useless because of a shortfall in traversing mechanisms. The Army's Detroit arsenal is still the only other U.S. tank producer in full swing, has just begun to produce an improved version of the postwar General Patton tank (plus modernizing several hundred World War II Pershings, mostly for Korea). Principal trouble: the arsenal is used as a research and development center and as a repair depot, in addition to its production duties. World...
...Senator Joe McCarthy gets headlines by what might be termed the dipsy-doodle or slider type of accusation-charges which are so horrible, fascinating or so slick with the tobacco juice of half-truth that the victim often strikes out helplessly while trying to get a clean swing at them. But last week the Senator made headlines because a Columbus, Ohio real-estate man named Bob Byers threw the same kind of verbal trick-ball...
...demarcation line the U.N. wanted. He and Nam II bent over the table, their heads almost touching as they studied the maps. The two sides clashed almost immediately. The Communists wanted to draw the demarcation line along the old North-South Korean boundary, the 38th parallel. If they could swing this, they would be able to trumpet to the world that the war had ended where it began; it would also win for the Reds much valuable real estate, for U.N. units in spots are now as much as 35 miles north of the parallel...
...prides himself on his chest (50 in.) and biceps (17 in.) and his prowess in weightlifting, boxing and baseball, Lanza treats his voice as if it were a special athletic talent, such as a good batting eye; he likes to swing for a home run every time, and when he has to bunt (as in a soft passage), some listeners have an uneasy feeling that he is trying to punch the ball out of the park. He overworks the Caruso sob. His Italian is rough. He tends to swallow his notes. His brilliant tone is often "white," i.e., lacking resonance...
...experimental car's headlights are concealed behind the air-scoop grill which revolves at the flick of a switch. Other features: thermostatically controlled electric seat warmers, fenders that swing up on hinges to make tire-changing easier. Motorists are not exactly clamoring for some of those innovations, but Le Sabre has one feature that is in widespread public demand: built-in hydraulic jacks under each wheel...