Word: swunged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a great split save by Jones at the three minute mark, the varsity forced play in the Yale zone until the puck was tied up at 4:27 for a faceoff in the circle to Jones' right. Reilly swung as the referee dropped the puck. His shot caught the goalie flat-footed in the near corner, bouncing into the left-hand side to tie the game...
...Dave Lawrence & Co., representing the party's old pros, fear the increasing power of Western Democrats as represented by California's zealously liberal National Committeeman Paul Ziffren, who swung the site-selection committee to Los Angeles. Beyond that, they are convinced that the liberal climate of a Los Angeles convention would work against their reaching a North-South compromise necessary for a united party in the 1960 elections. ¶ Los Angeles is Adlai Stevenson territory, and Paul Ziffren is one of the oldest and most devoted of Stevenson's followers. Since Ziffren would presumably be in charge...
...hairline Senate election victory last November. Pennsylvania's Republican Congressman Hugh Scott probably swung some votes in job-short Philadelphia by announcing that he had assurance from the White House that a big Government contract would go to Philadelphia's Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corp. Few outside Philadelphia paid much heed to the matter then. But last week, when the contract was formally announced, an international storm erupted over the order and the Administration's freer-trade policies...
...common stock rose from a '58 low of 10⅛ to 27⅛ last week). The line will get more than $10 million by trading in its nine double-deck Boeing Stratocruisers to Lockheed and five DC-7s to Douglas. Though the used-plane market is glutted, Northwest swung the trade-in because it held back, was the last major U.S. line to place firm orders for jets, thus was courted energetically by the planemakers. By ordering late, Northwest figures to get more advanced jets...
...With the help of God," said Iraq's Premier Abdul Karim Kassem on the radio one day last week, "we have discovered a serious plot . . . the work of some corrupt elements helped by foreigners from outside Iraq." The plot, said Kassem, was to have swung into action next morning. The arms, the money and the "perpetrators" had all been captured, he declared. The arrested would be tried by the People's Court for treason...