Word: swingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ambitious land-reform program, which has already created 2,300 farm cooperatives, is about to swing into a second phase. So far, 8,300 villages belonging to major landlords have been distributed to peasants; now they will receive lands from smaller owners as well, until some 40,000 villages are free. "By what right," asks Alam, who gave away his own vast holdings 15 years ago, "should peasants be treated like serfs, workers like slaves, and women like animals...
...left hand the blindfolded subject holds a tiller by which he can swing the sound beam, searching for test objects-small wires, lengths of pipe, pieces of cloth-hung at random from the chamber's roof. When the beam hits a target, an echo comes back, and from the character of that echo an experienced listener can tell an amazing amount about the target...
...fact, Home was a conscientious M.P., and says that the miseries of the depression in Lanarkshire helped swing his political views left of center. Despite the criticism that he knows nothing of domestic issues, he was concerned with a wide range of economic and social problems as Lanarkshire's M.P. and later as Secretary of State for Scotland...
Best of all, though, was a song of modern social protest. At one point in his campaign to swing public opinion against the reluctant spinsters, the civic leader enlists the support of some collegiate picketers who are suffering from the "Age-of-Anxiety Blues." Distressed that "Jim Baldwin said kid you gotta take a stand, but Ole Miss has opened and the bomb has been banned," the Wellesley-Brandeis-Radcliffe collection of demonstrators complain that "Sartre said kid you gotta decide/but how can I determine the essence inside...
...Thaw? Diplomats ride roughshod over Bonn's traffic laws. The city's narrow, choked streets-many dating from medieval times-allow little room for maneuvering, but cars with "O" plates (indicating the diplomatic corps) swing arrogantly into "no parking" zones and further complicate the traffic problem. Police rarely ticket diplomatic drivers, knowing that they will use their immunity to avoid answering the summons. When a British correspondent had the bumper ripped off his car by a speeding Ivory Coast diplomat passing on the wrong side, the police waved on the African at the flash of his passport...