Word: swing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swing Shift. In Matsuyama, Japan, eight-year-old Tojo Shinagawa's father changed his son's first name to Kiyotoshi, explained that the boy was fed up with classmates asking when he would be hanged...
...last fifth, the audience applauded politely. No one screamed; no one bounced; no one fell in a fit; no one left. The carefully disorganized music began again, the performers staring blankly at the audience, the audience staring blankly back. Bop was a very serious business-just as serious as swing used...
...almost three months since Harry Truman had put in a full week of uninterrupted work at his desk. Last week he got back into the swing of his job as if his stride had never been broken...
General De Gaulle "looks like the only salvation for Freshmen who are afraid," two former French students, one of them president of the Harvard French Club, agreed here last night. Their statement was offered as a comment on the marked swing to the Right in the recent upper chamber elections in France...
Paul added that "growing antagonism" to the plaque idea, as exemplified in a Boston Globe editorial last Saturday, might help swing the tide. The editorial stated that "present undergraduate students, so many of whose lives were in pawn" should have the strongest voice in a choice...