Word: swing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Webster) Yarborough had glad-handed his way across Texas in tireless battles for state office (attorney general, governor). Four times he failed-and before the last time former Governor Allan Shivers began to call him a "three-time loser." Last week Texas Liberal Yarborough, 53, took a fifth swing, this time at the 21-month, unexpired term in the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Price Daniel-who beat Yarborough for governor last year. Candidate Yarborough hit a home...
Arts men found stripteases, blue jeans, jukeboxes, cowboy suits, psychiatrists, and thousands of pinball machines. "We went for a walk in the streets, and we heard a new vocabulary: allergiques, rilaxe, sexy, nioulouk, pineups, star, besseller, vampe, manager, fans, cover gueurl, swing, smart, has-bine, and that someone had a djob." They talked to businessmen and farmers, scientists and artists. Their conclusions: French industry, science and agriculture could do with more Americanization. As for the rest-there will always be a France...
...tempo" (Kyrie, Agnus Dei), sometimes soars in the harmonies of the Negro spiritual ("0 praise God in his ho-li-ness") or thumps with a syncopated bass ("We praise Thee, we bless Thee we praise Thee, we bless Thee"). At several points in the score, instruments are invited to swing into their own improvisations, e.g., the trumpet after the passage, "Praise Him in the sound of the Trumpet...
...depression." ¶ Walgreen Co. President Charles R. Walgreen Jr.: "There are no signs of a recession in the drug industry. We are experiencing the best year in the history of our business-both in volume and profits." ¶CJ Coca-Cola President William E. Robinson, just back from a swing through company plants around the country: "With the availability of goods high and profit margins smaller, the consumer goods industry has the most competitive year we have seen since the war. But I found a sober, realistic, serious optimism that is based on a hardheaded analysis of conditions in every...
...delegation packed with Taft supporters picked for the convention. Carrying his battle to Chicago, Wisdom argued credentials with top courtroom skill, produced 21 witnesses and a stack of exhibits, won 13 of Louisiana's 15 seats at the critical moment when Eisenhower needed strength to swing the nomination. Under Wisdom, Louisiana last year went Republican for the first time in 80 years, gave the President an 85,000 majority...