Word: teetering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days, Scelba had seen Trieste settled and had pushed through the Paris accords. At home he had launched an attack, even though belated and limited, on the Communists' entrenched privileges. But he had gotten nowhere on Italy's much-needed social and economic reforms. Skillful on the teeter-totter of politics, he had merely avoided falling to the left or falling to the right by a careful balancing that kept him and his government upright but accomplished little else...
Postwar Austria is a political teeter-totter balanced precariously and almost exactly between two parties: the leftist Socialists (73 seats) and the conservative Catholic People's Party (74 seats). The one man who kept everything from tumbling down was Chancellor Leopold Figl, himself a conservative, who for eight years presided over a coalition of the two opposing parties with tact and humor...
...good example of Browning's new style is Seesaw, a group of children teeter-tottering dizzily up a perpendicular canvas. Another Browning trick: painting her Harlemites from above, so that the figures can be seen against a background of pavement litter and sidewalk doodles...