Word: swivet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swivet...
...your issue of March 1 . . . you use the word swivet. The only person I ever heard use the word is my secretary, who is from Memphis, Tenn...
Despite the investigations, N.A.N.A. still planned to release its series. (LIFE bought excerpts for its March 29 issue.) But Doubleday was in a swivet. It postponed publication of its book until the question of ownership could be cleared up. If OAP claimed the diaries, and it looked as if it would, the Government could reap the profits from this bestseller...
...fortnight ago, in a swivet of anti-Yanqui hysteria, Panama's National Assembly unanimously rejected the U.S.-proposed treaty for 14 defense bases on Panamanian territory. Last week, to Panama's astonishment, the U.S. promptly ordered its armed forces to vacate all bases outside the U.S.-controlled Canal Zone, including the big bomber base at Rio Hata...
Both national and Wisconsin Democratic leaders were in a swivet. Should they read Bobrowicz out of the party-and thus confess their error? Should they keep him and try to brazen it out? Or should they piously denounce Communism and let it go at that? Most forthright reaction came from Representative Andrew Biemiller, Democrat from the adjoining 5th District. He was against letting Communists crawl into office disguised as Democrats...