Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dinner, also got stuck with some nightwork. Wisconsin's rash-talking Joseph R. McCarthy rose and swung the tails of not one, but 81 Communists and party-liners (or so he said) in a wild attempt to decapitate both Harry Truman and Dean Acheson in one horrendous swing...
Capacity to Pay. Before they could quarrel with Swing's prescription for the nation's health, his opponents had to make their own diagnosis of the nation's ills. In general they agreed that many U.S. citizens were not getting the best of medical care, but they argued that it was not because of inability to pay for it. The Brookings Institution, in a report-made at the request of a Senate committee in the 80th Congress, concluded that families with incomes of $2,000 or more (at 1941 price levels) should have no difficulty in paying...
...Douglas Brown, dean of the Princeton faculty, regards the swing away from the social sciences toward the humanities as a "persistent trend" which began shortly after...
...foreign policymakers in the new year. In January, Assistant Secretary of State Edward Miller, in charge of U.S.-Latin American affairs, will preside over a meeting in Havana for U.S. ambassadors in the Caribbean area. In March, the State Department's retiring planning chief, George Kennan, on his swing around the hemisphere, will stop off in Rio to attend a meeting of U.S. ambassadors in South American countries. And both President Truman and Secretary of State Dean Acheson have said that they hope to visit Latin America sometime...