Word: whirlwinding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Next day, the President took off on a whirlwind speaking trip to Cleveland, Detroit, Louisville and Wilmington. By leaving Washington at 7:25 a.m. and returning at 7:14 p.m., the President traveled some 1,500 miles and averaged an incredible 125 m.p.h., including stops. Everywhere he went, his theme was Peace and Prosperity: "We won't go to war in order to get work." At his last stop, in Delaware, Ike had a suggestion to make: "If everybody here in this audience would go home this evening and start calling up-would call ten voters and ask them...
...undergo another brain operation. As soon as he got back on his feet, he realized that if his Discojos were ever to spin, he would have to step up his campaign for funds. Last week, still cheerful, he flew up to the U.S. for a whirlwind tour that will take him through seven cities, seeking contributions from firms doing business in Mexico. As Palmer well knows, there is good reason for such haste: after his last operation, the doctors told him that he has not long to live...
...television last week stirred up more excitement overseas than it did at home. To begin with, J. Fred Muggs, the 31-lb. chimpanzee who earns $500 a week for co-starring on NBC's Today with Dave Garroway, stopped traffic in Paris, Rome, Cairo and Tokyo on a whirlwind round-the-world tour. London was skipped because NBC felt that British memories might still be green about Muggs's narrowly stealing the coronation telecast from Queen Elizabeth. NBC Pressagent Mary A. Kelly, one of Muggs's entourage of five, wrote home excitedly that Parisians were exclaiming, "Regardez...
Suave Showman. A onetime bus mechanic, Fangio is a suave, taciturn showman who learned his racing in Argentina during World War II. By 1948 he was ready to go abroad. A skilled and careful driver, he whipped across the tracks of postwar Europe like a well-controlled whirlwind. Driving an Italian Alfa Romeo, he won a fistful of prizes...
...special list of 85 "Forbidden Words" for his staff. Among the banned words and phrases: dragnet, aired, bared (for revealed), legal bombshell, probe (for investigate), sweeping investigations, innocent bystander, fair sex, goodies, kiddies, smoking weapon, dropped dead, ill-gotten gains, minced no words, nuptial knot, socialite, tongue-lashing, whirlwind courtship...