Word: swing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...phoned Harold Stassen and asked him to urge Burger to take the credentials assignment. "But Brownell never once asked me how I was going to vote on any contest," says Burger. "There was never any business of 'Can we count on you?' He never asked me to swing the Minnesota delegation for Eisenhower. I guess what Brownell did was to appraise the Minnesota delegation, and from that appraisal he knew the way they had to go." Minnesota switched to Ike at precisely the right psychological moment on the first ballot. Brownell had made no deal with the Minnesotans...
...With a telephone in each hand Fine on one and Summerfield on the other, he held the phones so each could hear what the other was saying. So there would be no misunderstanding, he repeated their statements. In this strange, triple-phone talk, the timing of the Pennsylvania-Michigan swing to Ike was fixed...
...Crimson freshman athletic squads will swing into action against varied opposition all over New England today. The key contest is the hockey team's game with Brown at the Providence Arena tonight...
...Back Again. For several years Matisse dropped his knife. When he picked it up again, the cycle was the same: first realism, then a- gradual swing forward until his bronzes became as stylized as his canvases. Matisse's Head of Marguerite (1915) is sharp and delicate, his Large Seated Nude (1925) a study in flat, glossy planes. At the end of Tate's exhibit are his two final works: Venus in a Shell, long-legged and featureless, her arms drawn up behind her head, and Tiara, a writhing, lumpy mass of hair and head. Their date...
...king's ransom besides) in the null by leading the best swing band in history. Instead of the cream-puff stuff fashionable bands were spooning out, Benny had his men play the jive they lived for. Dragging players came to fear Benny's long, poker-faced squint aimed at them over the tops of his glasses. They called it simply "The Ray." He rehearsed them until they swung as one-a writhing, flashing, soaring serpent of sound. "If you're interested in music," Benny remarks soberly, "you can't slop around. I expected things, and they...