Word: swing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...national administration. He has often been accused of being provincial, and he makes no secret of the fact that he prefers his native Rhineland to the raw, "uncivilized" Prussians; once he cracked to a Berlin friend: "Why do you go on living in a town where the monkeys still swing from the trees?" With his imperious eyes, his thin, determined lips, and his rather high, monotonous voice, Adenauer is not a popular leader, nor does he want to be. He never shouts, never tries for dramatic effects; in his political followers he inspires respect, but rarely deep personal devotion...
...These things balance up. Give us time to catch up with our schedule (game have to be scheduled two and three years in advance) and the pendulum of victories will swing...
Born. To Thomas Francis ("Tommy") Dorsey, 44, belligerent, trombone-tootling bandleader (the "Sentimental Gentleman of Swing"), and third wife Jane New Dorsey, 26: their first child (his third), a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Catherine Susan. Weight...
...school year moved into full swing, Hungarian students of all ages were struggling with the outlandish Cyrillic alphabet, the baffling prodigies of Russian grammar. Last term, when language courses were still optional, 53% of them chose German, 30% English, 29% French, and only 3% Russian. Now, with the study of Russian compulsory in all grades of primary and secondary schools, pupils are required to spend more time learning "the language of socialism" than any other subject except Hungarian language and literature...
...Joseph Kennedy, 52, veteran Tammany wheelhorse; in an airplane crash; in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). A onetime Democratic Representative from New York (1938-42), Kennedy became Tammany sachem in 1942, was ousted two years later after bigtime Gambler Frank Costello admitted that he had used money and influence to swing Kennedy's appointment...