Word: swing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hatched from an egg, has the head of a hare, with long ears and brown eyes. It has the body of a chicken, and a hare's tail. It walks on two legs, like a chicken, and, in place of wings or forelegs, it has short stubs that swing back and forth as the fur-fowl walks...
...Master teed up against Byron Nelson, 34, the modern mechanical marvel. Most of the way, Jones matched Nelson shot for shot. Bobby's haymaker swing, accentuated wrist motion, and hula hip motion seemed incurably individualistic beside Byron's three-quarters swing, and minimum of motion...
...eleventh hole (Dogwood), Jones hooked into deep trouble. Kibitzer Walter Hagen, along for the walk, advised Bobby: "Take your time at the top of your swing, as you did when you wrecked me and Gene Sarazen. . . . Get lazy again." Jones did, and played the last seven holes in even par. Next day, Bobby edged Byron one stroke with a 72-his best competitive round in a dozen years. But his final score for 72 holes: 302. He finished in 32nd place...
...That Bottle Down. In Virginia, Mrs. Edward Comfort's car unexpectedly overturned when her 15-month-old baby took a swing at her, knocked her silly with a nursing bottle...
Bubbling with holiday spirits, the children dropped into their schools to ring the bells in gay derision or to gather around pianos and bang out American swing. In Dublin's green parks, sedate old pensioners and mooning poets basking in the warm spring sunshine suddenly found themselves uprooted to make way for football games. Back alleys echoed to the shouts of handball and toss-ha'penny players. The merrily rioting kids stopped politely to give their names and addresses when windows got broken. When one crowd tipped over a pushcart in Dublin's market district, another group...