Word: swingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British voter. In union halls and smoke-filled rooms, all the big unions had registered their stands and committed their huge bloc votes last summer. When the conference chairman banged his opening gavel in the big Scarborough auditorium, only the delegates representing the various constituency parties remained free to swing their votes-and the only question left undecided was the size of Hugh Gaitskell's defeat. Burly Frank Cousins, leftist boss of the giant Transport and General Workers Union, was driving for a million-vote majority for a neutralist policy. Gaitskell, backed by the party's 254 M.P.s...
...heard a word of what his critics said, De Gaulle was not only undeterred but ready to add a new demand for a veto on practically all Western defense plans. Addressing a crowd at Grenoble during a swing through eastern France, De Gaulle said: "France intends that if, by misfortune, atomic bombs were to be dropped on the world, none should be dropped by the free world's side unless she should have accepted it, and that, from her soi , no atomic bomb should be launched unless she herself should have decided it." He was still...
...first inning had already scored two runs and loaded the bases when the unlikeliest slugger of them all stepped into the box, looking fully as dangerous as any promising Little Leaguer. Second Baseman Bobby Richardson got every bit of his 5-ft. 9-in., 166-lb. frame behind his swing and hit a grand-slam home run into the leftfield seats. For Richardson, the home run was only the fourth of his four-year major league career. Later, with a single to left, Richardson drove in two more runs for a day's total of six-and a World...
Louisiana: French Catholics and Negroes will probably swing back from Ike and tilt the balance for Kennedy...
Teaching Machines. Encyclopedia publishers have also benefited from the boom. The swing away from progressive educational theory and the return to the fundamentals of the three Rs is sending more children, at a younger age, home with homework. This plus overcrowded school libraries has handicapped the student without a standard reference shelf in his home. Sales of Grolier's encyclopedias (e.g., Book of Knowledge, Americana) have risen from $25 million in 1950 to an estimated $77 million this year...