Word: swunged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plane swung above in wide circles, jettisoning some of its heavy takeoff (104,000 Ibs.) fuel load and burning up most of the rest at low altitude, waiting for foaming operations to be completed. The emergency vehicles on the field could hear the calm spurts of dialogue between Pilot Sommers and the control tower...
...Rookie Centerfielder Bob Allison, 25, handsome, hustling former fullback for the University of Kansas who once swung "like an old lady," according to Manager Cookie Lavagetto, but now has grooved his power so smoothly that he is dubbed "Mr. Downstairs" for his line-drive home runs, stands third in the league with...
...been Tom Dewey's running mate in 1948.) Nixon, though pledged with the California delegation to Warren for President, was an active Eisenhower advocate who had also talked privately about the vice presidency with Ikemen Tom Dewey and Herbert Brownell. Fresh from Chicago convention headquarters, Nixon swung aboard the Warren train at Denver, began spreading the word of Eisenhower's growing strength, got some Californians to let Warren know that they would stick with him only in the first ballot, then swing to Ike. The threatened rebellion never came off, because Eisenhower got the nomination on the first...
Under the hot shimmer of July in Jerusalem, a giant crane swung endlessly back and forth last week lifting new girders above an old shrine. The Dome of the Rock, at Jerusalem's eastern edge, was to have a new covering. Yet as riggers scrambled over the site, assembling the scaffolding and preparing huge aluminum beams for erection, a controversy raged over the project, with loud cries that one of the world's holiest spots was being defiled instead of restored...
...royal bridge, just below the ship's navigating bridge, Philip handed Ike his binoculars for a better view of the St. Lambert lock as its gates swung open to receive the Britannia. Later, in the state dining room, where a U-shaped mahogany table was set with crested white bone china, the royal couple and their 56 guests sat down in Chippendale chairs for a lunch of soft-boiled eggs on mousse of foie gras, garnished chicken, strawberry ice bombe, three wines...