Word: swivets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many of their elders showed similar reactions. In Beverly Hills, Mathews, an expensive women's shop, moved into a new store with silk-lined walls, and sent out 1,000 charge plates made of 14-carat gold. In Galveston, one Joe Grasso flew into a swivet over the fact that two Texas pelicans died recently in the London zoo. "They were double-tough Texas pelicans-the toughest birds in the world," he cried, and were the victims of a "Communist plot to discredit Texas in particular and America in general...
Police were in a swivet; accusations flew thick & fast. Screamed the Soviet news agency, Tass: "French fascist groups will stop at nothing." The French Communist press roared that De Gaullists had instigated the bombings...
Then Chesty Puller caught a plane, flew to his home & family in Saluda, Va. His salty remarks had sent the Pentagon into a close-mouthed swivet, had moved the W.C.T.U. to complain that liquor could leave troops "fuddleduddied." By the time he reached home, Chesty had pulled his chest in, had no more...
...coup against the law, she is as thrilled as a housewife whose husband has just gotten a raise. Then Cagney charms a flighty society heiress (Helena Carter) into eloping with him and, at her father's urging, plans to take charge of her $30 million. In a jealous swivet, the moll begins throwing things like coffee pots and Jeroboams of champagne, finally throws a couple of slugs into her wayward gunman. Long before that point, enough brutality, bravado and dime-novel sex have been ladled into the killer-hero's life to keep this potboiler simmering merrily along...
Lawmakers at Work. These preparations were not begun without stirring up piercing yells of alarm. Albany's Mayor Erastus Corning was in a terrible swivet -he accused New York City of aiming to turn upstate New York into a desert by drying up the clouds before they got there. Some residents of the city's watershed area seemed to think that they faced only two alternatives: build arks or drown in a Howell-made deluge...