Word: swingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many ways, the U.S. was lucky to have Hull as Secretary of State in the prewar years. Though a Wilsonian liberal, he had the respect of the nation's conservatives. He helped swing national opinion from isolationism to internationalism. But like his mentor Wilson, he was too didactic, too cocksure of his own principles. By believing that the United Nations would solve all the world's problems and make obsolete the cold realities of Communist hostility, he contributed to the bad peace that followed World...
JUNIOR MANCE: GET READY, SET, JUMP!!! (Capitol). Julian Clifford Mance Jr. spends little time brooding at the piano. He prefers to swing along triumphantly with Drummer Shelly Manne and a small army of trumpets and trombones full of moxie right behind him. September Song does not respond to their ebullient treatment, but Running Upstairs and Jubilation rightly sizzle...
Alas, neither woodpeckers nor cavemen swing much weight, votewise, in Oregon. And the latest Portland Oregonian poll, even while showing Rocky up by three points, still gave him only 21%. Barry Goldwater looked worse than before (from 14% to 12%), and had all but kissed Oregon off. Even so, Field Director Steve Shadegg brought Goldwater Sons Barry Jr. and Mike in for a campaign swing, and insisted that "right now, Goldwater has 25% of the vote in Oregon, and maybe more. We need about 20,000 votes more to win. I wouldn't be surprised...
...time, Labourites complained that the Tories had gerrymandered the GLC against them. But two weeks ago Labour walked off with 64 of 100 seats. Labour strength held up solidly in all parts of Greater London. Even middle class suburbs moved strongly to the left. The seven percent swing from Conservative to Labour, if repeated in the general election, would give Labour a margin of more than one hundred seats in the next Parliament...
...Princeton can win four of the six singles matches, the Crimson can probably forget it. But if the doubles can swing the match, the Tiger tennis squad may go the way of all good Princeton teams in Cambridge this year--straight down...