Word: swingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Senate Challenge. By contrast, the President's recommendation for doubling the terms of Representatives would constitute a more radical departure, and thus has slimmer prospects of passage. For obvious reasons, it commands considerable support in the House, especially among junior members and those from swing districts, who object that under the present system a member has barely taken his seat before he must begin thinking of reelection. As congressional sessions grow longer, bills more numerous, issues more complex, Representatives argue that they are needlessly distracted from their proper business of lawmaking...
...Friendly Undertaker. All the pressures share a common source: Sihanouk's swing toward Red China. Having severed diplomatic ties with South Viet Nam, Thailand and the U.S., the Prince has gradually become more and more dependent on the Red Chinese, who are playing the role of the friendly undertaker. Eventually they hope to bury Sihanouk. Meanwhile, they can afford to help him, equipping 20,000 members of the Cambodian infantry, also promising some antiaircraft guns, patrol boats and planes. Americans at the border? Let them come, Sihanouk blusters...
...other ways. The bombers usually busy over North Viet Nam were put to work blasting the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos, flying as many as 250 sorties a day against Hanoi's pipeline, which was taking advantage of the bombing pause. And General Wheeler, back from a swing through Southeast Asia, announced that, should the peace offensive fail, he would immediately ask the President for a resumption of bombing the North...
...Sewgolum and South Africa's U.S. Open Champion Gary Player drew heavy galleries of whites and nonwhites. Police tried to chase off the nonwhites but got nowhere. So, as the second round opened the next day, the government hauled out its trusty racial iron and took a hefty swing. Police enforced tighter separation of the crowds, posted two agents with Sewgolum to keep the whites at a safe distance, and summarily banned Sewgolum from any further tournaments after the South African P.G.A., including the Natal Open, which he won last year. If Player was bothered by such unsportsmanlike treatment...
They are 3-0 in Ivy competition, and 12-3 overall. Clarkson stopped Cornell 2-1 early in the season, and two losses were absorbed at the hands of Denver during a western swing...