Word: swingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What a stupid way to handle things," Sullivan declared. He said he could not understand why McGeorge Bundy worked to swing Republican votes against him. "I was led to believe in conversations with Charlie Whitlock that Bundy was in favor of the project before he went to Washington," Sullivan maintained...
This was the doctrine that Adolf A. Berle, chief of Kennedy's Latin American task force, spread on his recent South American swing. Specifically, Berle sought to line up support for a collective diplomatic and commercial quarantine of Cuba by all members of the Organization of American States. In Brazil Berle ran into a personal affront from President Janio Quadros (see below), who is aggressively determined to show how neutral he intends Brazil to be in international affairs. When Latin America's biggest nation refused to line up with the U.S. against Castro, the prospect of others doing...
...remaining 15 will be elected by both rolls under a percentage system that will ensure both the black and white voting blocs the power to veto any candidate. Though London's Daily Mirror called it "too clever by half," the plan's intent was clear: to give swing power to moderates of both races...
First Gong. The plan must still be sold to the Northern Rhodesians, and that will be harder. Only the moderate multiracial Liberal Party, which stands to win a good number of the swing seats, endorsed the scheme. Kaunda and his fellow nationalists might eventually cooperate, on the theory that the new constitution is at least a big step forward. But that will still leave the toughest nut to crack-the white settlers. In the Northern Rhodesian capital of Lusaka, the five elected members of the governing executive council, all members of Welensky's United Federal Party, resigned in protest...
Hartford-born Critic Soby was a sophomore at Williams College when he bought his first work, a reproduction of a print by Maxfield Parrish showing a nude girl seated "on a swing over an Arcadian terrace." Next he turned to the "big three'' of the time: Picasso. Matisse and Derain. Much as he admired these artists, Soby was not a man to stick with the crowd for long. His collection grew in no one direction, wandered gently over the face of modern art with his affections and consistent good taste to lead...