Word: swing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, with 2,200 students, the Free University was going full swing. It was laying plans to set up a full-fledged law school, had already organized its medical school. Most of the students are veterans, almost all must work on the side to pay for their crowded, underheated rooms and for the tasteless food they...
Mind & Muscle. The characteristics of skill and temperament that Ben Hogan uses to dominate golf are the characteristics of any champion, developed with infinite care. As a golfer, of course, one great part of his game rests on his swing. In Hogan, a natural left-hander who switched to a right-handed game, it is strictly a manufactured asset, put together piece by piece and grooved by endless hours of dogged practice. Bobby Jones used to swing with drowsy, easy grace. Hogan stands with knees flexed, fanny protruding, toes pointed slightly outward -and swings with all the business-like authority...
...after 2% years in the Army, all of it Stateside), he shot his way right back to the top of the heap, with earnings of $42,556. But try as he might, Ben couldn't seem to win the big one-the U.S. Open. His swing still didn't suit him; his drives still had a tendency to hook...
...peace and prosperity, even if it was made uneasy by the tension in the rest of the world. Its fads and foibles rang changes on those of other years, but they were unmistakably American. Bebop, a frantic, disorganized musical cult whose high priest was quid-cheeked Dizzy Gillespie, replaced swing; the Shmoo took the place of 1947's Sparkle Plenty...
...first to greet him on his arrival, and at lunch later at the Stork Club, complimented him on his "free and warm" playing on records of Schubert's Der Hirt auf dem Felsen. As for playing "the other kind" himself, Kell once made a record of Swing Low, Sweet Clarinet, but admits that "In a jam session, I'm like a rabbit at a stoat's tea party...