Word: swunged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pravda described it as a sphere of aluminum alloys with a "polished and specially treated surtace" and four metal rods as antennae 2.4 to 2.9 meters (7.9 to 9.5 ft.) long. When the carrier rocket was fired, the rods were folded back against the sphere, but swung outward on swivels when the satellite reached its orbit. The sphere is filled with nitrogen gas, presumably to help it get rid of the heat developed by the electrical equipment. If the satellite is punctured by a meteor, the gas pressure will fall at a rate that could tell the size...
...party plan at her husband and shrilled: "Take it back. Give us a program for the next five years of Labor government." But Nye sat silently on, and Hugh Gaitskell had the votes. Hard-fisted Frank Cousins, boss of the huge Transport and General Workers Union, swung the trade union's massive support to him in return for a pledge that road transport and steel, restored to private ownership by the Tories in 1953, would be renationalized when the Laborites return to power...
...field almost as intimately as the ball itself, perched him right behind the umpire at home plate, let him look over the pitcher's shoulder, or into the dust cloud at third. It was a job that took teamwork as smooth as any on the ballfield. Alertly swung and aimed cameras sent a confusing pell-mell of images from all angles into a control room where split-second decisions distilled the chaos into the crisp, orderly telecasts that brought the World Series to baseball's biggest audience-some 40 million all over the U.S., Canada...
Four Negro newsmen had foolishly approached the crowd from the rear. It was the tinder's spark. Some 20 rednecks turned on the Negroes, began chasing them back down the block. Other whites streamed behind. A one-armed man, his dimpled stump below his shirtsleeve, swung wildly at one Negro. Another Negro (a onetime U.S. marine) decided not to run, ambled with terrifying dignity through a gauntlet of blows, kicks and curses. A cop stood on a car bumper to get a better view. Other cops moved toward the fighting. Faubus Henchman James Karam cried angrily, "The nigger started...
...strung from the trunks of the high school's lordly oaks. Jeeps moved around to the rear of the school, parked in a line along practice-football charging machines. Pup tents blossomed in back of the school's tennis courts. Colonel William A. Kuhn, smart and salty, swung a swagger stick as he examined a map of the school grounds...