Word: swing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...politician with a barometric response to popular mood, shrewd Habib Bourguiba recognized that his only hope of heading off a national swing to neutralism lay in putting himself at the head of the anti-French parade. Bourguiba ordered 400 French civilians out of the Tunisian-Algerian border area "for security reasons," demanded that France close five of her ten consulates in Tunisia, directed his U.N. delegation to request an immediate Security Council debate on the Sakiet-Sidi-Youssef bombing. In his most drastic move he also demanded immediate withdrawal of the 22,000 troops that France has been permitted...
Back from a 32,000-mile, six-week swing through the farthest reaches of the Commonwealth, Harold Macmillan felt a "sense of exhilaration and renewed faith" in the strength of Britain's empire ties. The Commonwealth had seen an unexpectedly relaxed and genial Macmillan. Fresh from a rousing reception in India, he landed at Karachi in Pakistan (in a Britannia turboprop airliner nicknamed "The Flying No. 10") to be greeted by cheering thousands, detoured 700 miles north to the North-West Frontier mountains never before visited by a British Prime Minister...
Even the dealers who rent coronets and pseudoermine capes will benefit from an increased and more fashion-conscious clientele. The only potential danger involved is that the Queen someday might decide to pack the upper chamber with peeresses to swing votes vital to her sex. But this threat seems negligible, and the first action the sovereign might take is to appoint Princess Margaret Lady Chancellor...
...frame, he had a barrel belly and a pair of massive legs. But on a baseball diamond Campanella was an athlete of grace who bolted the bases with a sprinter's furious stride and howitzered the long ball to left with a short, powerful swing...
What caused the fuss was Saint-Laurent's "trapeze line": narrow shoulders, shaped bodice and a loose flow with an easy swing ("trapeze") from solar plexus to kneecaps. Like such other top designers as Guy Laroche, Jean Dessės and Lanvin-Castillo, who showed their wares last week, Saint-Laurent has gone to work on the billowy, knee-hobbling chemise-sack dress, the first big change in female fashions since the New Look in 1947. Some made it slimmer, some wider, most flared the hemline and shortened it until it barely covers the knees. Fashion writers hailed Saint...