Word: swing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military terms, reconversion meant redeployment. The U.S. had to swing hundreds of thousands of fighting men, with mountains of equipment, from the finished victory in Europe to the finishing blow against Japan. Fred Vinson listed some of the mountainous details...
...committee, composed mostly of lawyers, wrote the final draft. The first seven lines have real swing, and are mostly Smuts. Then the preamble hits heavy going with a phrase the Chileans insisted on, poetry or no poetry: ". . . obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international...
...Nobody knows exactly what the costs of production are going to be as industry gets into full swing. We do know that there's lots more production know-how, more and better plants, and that volume will probably break all records. We are confident that profit margins will be much higher than...
They found clean clothes, clean sheets on real beds, the best French service, chamber music at lunch, tea dances, swing bands at dinner, concerts, movies, Cokes, local gin and beer. Signs grinned: '"No Saluting." For nothing or for a few francs, they could hire bicycles, sunbathe, play at the Lawn Tennis Club, take American Express tours in the big rolltop busses. There were canoes, pedallo boats and sloops with which to negotiate the blue Mediterranean. Most incredible of all: if any of them got taken drunk, gentle MPs put them gently...
...welfare, and so forth. We who had lived there were concerned, and Chinese leaders were even more disturbed, because we and they knew that it was not a true picture of the situation in China or in any country, and that such over-idealization would inevitably lead to a swing-back into over-disillusionment. We are in the midst of that swing-back now. Those who a year ago could hardly find words good enough with which to describe our Chinese allies now can hardly find words bad enough. To hear them talk now, all Chinese are lazy, are crooks...