Word: swingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...holding regional elections, and the Communists threatened to repeat the massive gains they had scored in Italy's national elections seven weeks ago. Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti himself was on hand to campaign. Back and forth across the island scurried hundreds of Communist squadristi (shock troops), trying to swing undecided voters...
...asleep in his humble 40-room pad on Chicago's North Side one afternoon earlier this month when four men from the vice squad came calling. A brass plaque on the front door carries the Latin legend "Si non oscillas noli tintinnare"-"If you don't swing, don't ring"-but the cops rang anyway and swung Hefner off to be booked on charges of publishing and selling an obscene magazine...
Most golfers would be flattered to be mentioned in the same breath with Arnold Palmer. But not Mickey Wright. "Bah," she snorts, when people call her "the Arnold Palmer of women's golf." "Palmer and I don't have a thing in common. I have a classic swing. His is all wrong. He's just lucky he's strong...
...hole. "I can outhit many men-much to their embarrassment," says Mickey gaily. "They think they are pitting their masculinity against my femininity, their strength against mine. That's foolish. They aren't competing with my strength; they're competing with the efficiency of my swing...
...reports that Dwight Eisenhower favored, and was quietly promoting, Michigan's Governor George Romney for next year's G.O.P. presidential nomination. But Ike insists that this is not so, that he prefers no one man to another-and that, in any event, he will not try to swing or sway the 1964 Republican convention toward anyone...