Word: swunged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With that, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and Texas' Junior Senator Ralph Yarborough swung into action on Capitol Hill, asked Congress to help in curbing "uncontrolled" oil imports. Said Texan Yarborough: "The situation for our independent producers has become a one-way street leading to oblivion." Johnson announced that he had word that President Eisenhower himself would intervene in the case to curb oil imports "threatening national security...
...Wanderer. In Wolverhampton, England, rush-hour shoppers laughed merrily at Samuel Morgan, shouting as he chased a crowded trolleybus down the main street-until they realized, after he had swung aboard, that he was the driver...
Specifically, Nimitz swung his three carriers-Enterprise, Hornet, Yorktown- around to the northeast of Midway to take the Japanese by surprise from the flank. "You will be governed by the principle of calculated risk," Nimitz told his task force commanders, Rear Admirals Raymond A. Spruance and Frank Jack Fletcher, who well knew that the three carriers were about all that stood between the Japanese and California. Not far away, gliding serenely through a fog bank amid their great escort, the Japanese carriers Akagi, Kaga, Soryu and Hiryu prepared for their strike...
...Knight swung his weight behind F.D.R. six months before Pearl Harbor, supported the Marshall Plan "with misgivings." A Taft supporter when he visited Ike in May 1952, Knight sensed immediately that Eisenhower "had a fresher and more modern approach." The publisher's vigorous support of Eisenhower earned him the President's "admiration and warm regard" -the phrase Ike wrote on the signed photograph that still faces Jack Knight's desk...
...state agreement, with special emphasis on restoring religious teaching in the schools, plus an agreement to hold general elections. The conditions were promptly accepted, and on last Oct. 29. the cardinal climbed into his black 1947 Ford and drove back to Warsaw. That night the cardinal's car swung into the courtyard of the primate's palace and its headlights picked out the kneeling forms of the cardinal's personal staff waiting to greet him and receive his blessing...