Word: swingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past ten days, veteran political reporters, editors, and pollsters have noted a distinct swing to Senator Kennedy; and a statewide poll taken by the New York Daily News, indicates that the rumblings may foreshadow a Democratic landslide...
...Candidate Nixon off the hook by saying: "I am sure that Mr. Nixon will tell you that his Cabinet will be selected without regard to color or creed." Asked what he thought about Lodge's "pledge," Nixon said just that. As Lodge headed South on a campaign swing, he ran into angry questions from G.O.P. leaders in Virginia, finally on reaching Winston-Salem, N.C. told newsmen: "I cannot pledge anything...
...office in Salt Lake City and said: "I sat by your competitor a few days ago. I said to him, 'If you win, we'll support you.' Today I say to you I hope you are successful.' Though McKay's Nixon endorsement surely would swing much weight with many of the nation's 1,400,000 Mormons (mostly in Utah, Arizona and Idaho), churchmen hastened to point out that the Mormon church has not officially endorsed a presidential candidate since stirring up a great storm by opposing Franklin Roosevelt's third term...
Close behind Laris in this afternoon's scoring will be teammate Nick Jennison. Just how close he is will be a big factor in determining the winning team: a one-two finish by either Laris and Jennison or the Crimson's Mark Mullein and captain Jed Fitzgerald could easily swing the total sooring...
...returned to the Senate at war's end. An early supporter of the Philippines' late President Ramon Magsaysay, Recto soon turned bitterly against him, claimed that Magsaysay had welshed on a promise to serve only one term. Recto avidly sought the presidency for himself but never could swing enough voters to his extreme views, became loudly anti-American...