Word: swingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end Romney flew off to Europe with 75 businessmen on an eight-day, six-country swing to drum up international trade for Michigan. As a top possibility for the G.O.P.'s presidential nomination in 1968, he was asked the usual what's-your-political-future question by newsmen in Amsterdam. Replied Romney: "I have not yet decided whether to run for Governor or for the U.S. Senate...
...nearly every political faction in the nation, and every six years puts on a U.S.-style orgy of elections for the one presidential candidate on the ballot, who has been secretly selected by the P.R.I. party chiefs. Yet somehow it all works out fairly democratically, producing a metronomic swing from left to right in the P.R.I. governments. Argentina, in contrast, has the democratic forms without the music: in self-defense, the regime reserves the right to veto candidates backing exiled Dictator Juan Perón, who, were he permitted back, could make a Napoleonic return to power...
Brian McGuinn will swing in the number one slot for the seven-man Crimson squad...
...many worlds that he is never an insider. Rojack is in limbo, always a familiar face, always tuned in on the less guarded secrets, but always a floater on the periphery, always a nose pressed against the glass. This is Rojack (and Mailer his shadow), much too hip to swing with the squares, but too close to power to call himself an outcast; doomed to a netherworld of liberal intellectuals, never in the back rooms with Mr. Big nor safe on a midnight street in Harlem...
...team's difficulties over the vacation were partly a result of tougher opposition. Last year, instead of meeting Virginia, Navy, and Maryland on its swing through the South, the team took on Hampden-Sydney, Lynchburg, and Johns Hopkins...