Word: upsweep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lines of his speech so that no phrase would be lost in rough-edged delivery. In the ornate presidential suite of San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel, he was at it again, reading it over to his aides, experimenting with tricks of rephrasing and deciding precisely where an upsweep of his spectacles-case would lend the best visual punctuation. The Secretary of State wanted no misunderstandings of what...
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