Word: swing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mute or not, they expected it to streak into a solar orbit Wednesday or Thursday on a pear-shaped course that possibly--barely possible--might one day swing it back to earth...
...question of reorganizing industrial management and the question of developing the virgin lands. I spoke and fought for the party line. But sad as it is for me, the fact remains that in 1957, when the antiparty activity of Malenkov, Kaganovich, Molotov and Shepilov was in full swing, I joined them. As chairman of the council of ministers at the time, I was not only their accomplice but their nominal leader. The antiparty group met and plotted in my office. If therefore I once behaved correctly, I subsequently shared with them all the antiparty filth...
...rdenas' successor, Manuel Avila Camacho, got Mexico's industrialization into full swing during World War II. To fight the war, the U.S. needed everything that Mexico produced-cotton, metals, ores. The railroads were antiquated and creaky, but at least they were submarine-proof. U.S. dollars tumbled in, exports rumbled out. Many rich ex-landowners built factories to produce the goods Mexico could no longer import...
Hips, Neck & Knees. In Germany such celebrities as Max Schmeling and his ex-movie actress wife Anny Ondra have posed twirling what the Germans call Swing Reifen, Sport Reifen, Hula Reifen or Hulahupp. A Hanover store increased its sales by offering to deliver well-wrapped hoops after nightfall to childless couples who were too sheepish to carry them home. In Finland there are hula marathons that set contestants to twirling hoops about the hips, neck and knees all at once. In Japan, where some 3.000.000 hoops have been sold, people queued up in Tokyo department stores to buy tickets enabling...
...eleven seasons, led the league in homers six times, wound up with a lifetime average of .304. Giant fans called Mel Ott "the Little Giant," watched fondly as he took his straight-up, lefthanded stance, kicked his right foot up to get all his 160 lbs. into the swing, and pumped another home run into the stands...