Word: swunged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that "politics could do a lot for a young man." Soon he found out, "to my amazement," that although 60% of his district wanted Eisenhower for President, the Old Guard state G.O.P. was about to deliver up Michigan to Robert A. Taft. Thereafter Feikens helped spark the revolt that swung the Michigan delegation to Eisenhower. He won election to the $10,000-a-year job of state chairman after the Eisenhower landslide, was re-elected in February 1955 notwithstanding the Democratic clean sweep of 1954. He has since worked himself ragged trying to rebuild the G.O.P. organization...
...Democrats have not been perfect on the issue, either, but the dominant element in the party swung 83 per cent of the Senate Democratic vote for Hells Canyon, while 96 per cent of the Republicans, under Eisenhower pressure, opposed...
NASSER'S troubles are far from over, but any responsible assessment of the canal crisis must include the probability that the Egyptians are able to run it by themselves. At 0730 on the dot, placed 14th in a 24-ship convoy, the Coraggio swung free at Port Said. Egyptian Pilot Ibrahim el Shiaty, who speaks good Italian, barked his first orders: "Avanti adagio, venti a diritta" (Slow ahead, 20 degrees rudder to the right). We moved slowly past the statue of Canal Builder Ferdinand de Lesseps with bronze arm outstretched, past the white-colonnaded canal headquarters where the green...
...House, thanked her bravely, and launched into an attack on appeasement in the Middle East. He was interrupted by a booming voice from the third row. "Did you want another war?" a heavy man with a bald dome surrounded by a white fringe cried. After the movie cameras had swung around, he repeated the question. McCormack continued. "Answer the man," cried a man in the first row and then another from the corner. The audience waited for an answer, so the majority leader asked if the man wanted another Munich. Two policemen walked over to the man in the third...
...expert, inventor and author, who in 1914 demonstrated a primitive form of television, three years later designed the first guided missile, went on to invent a device to photograph sound, a system of radio torpedo control, a drop-proof cigarette ash and a golf putter that lit up when swung correctly, turned out some 30 books of history, science prophecy, weapons development and scientific theory; of a lung ailment; in London...