Word: swunged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Worship. Last week Nehru was doing what he could to repair his government's damaged prestige. He admitted "improprieties" existed (but insisted that Krishnamachari had not the smallest part in it that he could see), and ordered formal proceedings against Patel and the two insurance corporation officials who swung the deal. Federal police roused Promoter Mundhra at dawn from the $30-a-day prince's suite of New Delhi's Claridge's Hotel and hauled him off to jail on charges of criminal conspiracy, cheating and forging false stock certificates...
...Ottawa's wide-open gambling joints with stories that played up their owners' political connections. He flailed away at thimblerigging in La Salle County's tax assessments, flayed the city government for lax enforcement of liquor laws. Bucking opposition from tax-conscious merchants, Editor Hames also swung the paper behind such long-needed improvements as sewer and school construction. For three straight years after Editor Hames took over in 1951, the Republican-Times walked off with the 16-state Inland Daily Press Association's award for coverage of local government...
Gordon got off to a slow start and was last as the runners swung into the first turn. On the narrow Garden track, this is a nearly hopeless handicap, especially in the shorter races...
...chair, and Bulganin took over. Did the Old Guard think that because they had destroyed Stalin's police power, they could vote Khrushchev freely out of his job as they had voted Malenkov out before him? Khrushchev fought back, and the old commissars learned that the new party boss swung a new kind of political power. According to an East German radio report, Marshal Zhukov sent out his aircraft to fetch Khrushchev's Central Committee henchmen to Moscow. In the final vote all joined to censure the "antiparty group" except Molotov, who stubbornly abstained. Molotov, the last living collaborator...
...Gophers simply out-skated the Crimson for the first period and then let loose with a salvo of goals to win easily, 7 to 2. It was in this game that Copeland broke his wrist. He was driven into the boards by an average body check, but as he swung around to skate for the puck, his arm hit the boards and his wrist was broken...