Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvey decided the best way back was forward. He led the remnants of his company to the north and straight into enemy territory, hoping to swing around behind the Chinese. At first, the plan seemed to work; Harvey and his men met only two Chinese. "They were dumfounded," said Harvey. "My chaps shot them from the hip." But after they had turned south, when Captain Harvey led his men into a narrow valley, Chinese on the crests poured mortar and machine-gun fire on the Gloucesters. "It was a case of running, one group firing while the others crossed that...
...Central Asiatic Spartakiad-a tournament, including soccer, among five Central Asiatic Soviet Socialist Republics -was in full swing. The Alma Ata soccer team (representing the Kazakh Republic) was playing the Ashkhabad eleven (representing Turkmenistan). Alma Ata was ahead in the game, but what counts in the Spartakiad is not the number of games won; it is the number of goals scored. In goals, the Tashkent team (representing Uzbekistan), which did not play that day, had a narrow lead. The game between Alma Ata and Ashkhabad reached a point where, if either of the teams scored two more goals, Tashkent would...
...A.F.L. can get the men, it feels it will have no trouble making the maids swing over. "Some of them, though," said Sullivan, "have called me to say their House superintendents have threatened to give them added work if they do switch unions...
...Berlin, trouble comes where least expected. For five years the U.S. military post has operated a twice-weekly sightseeing tour of the city without incident. One day last week four U.S. buses, bearing 73 tourists, including twelve children, were returning from their customary swing through the Soviet sector when they ran into a tense, but typical, Berlin situation...
...birth as "the first and direst of all disasters," was born in an Ohio log cabin in 1842, the tenth of 13 children. His godly parents never spared the birch rod, but young Ambrose was notably full of the devil nonetheless. Once, when a camp meeting was in full swing, he and a brother took an old white horse, wrapped it in straw, set that afire, and sent the blazing animal galloping into the midst of the hallelujah-shouting revivalists...