Word: swing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreign ministers did not take all this sitting down. Instead, they did what foreign ministers now do when they get in a jam: hop a plane. Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, on his way to Pakistan for a meeting of the SEATO council, had planned a swing through the Middle East to shore up Britain's wobbly prestige. Glubb's ejection caught him in Cairo in the awkward moment of conferring with Egypt's triumphant Prime Minister Gamal Abdel Nasser, who has been energetically egging King Hussein on. Crowed Egypt's Minister of State...
...gave Ratliff and his friends their bargaining power was the quiet support of marble-faced old (74) Harold L. (Harry) Stuart, head of Chicago's Halsey, Stuart & Co. and one of the country's top financiers. It was Stuart who floated $6,000,000 in loans to swing the Enquirer deal and who still holds $1,500,000 in debentures, which are convertible into stock. The stock would give its holders working control of the paper...
...latest thing among younger British painters is a violent swing back to realism. Like their young contemporary, French Prodigy Bernard Buffet (TIME, Feb. 27), they are concerned with the drab reality of everyday life. Their favorite subjects are pots and pans, pubs, dingy outdoor scenes, and almost anything handy piled on top of the kitchen table. Hence their collective title: "the Kitchen Sink School...
...expectant hush while she picked a winner. The losers sulked prettily and than gathered around the winner to inspect her in envy. Metatarsal arches are important to the class, the instructor said, because the participants are taught how to walk well on them. "Of course girls naturally swing more than boys would," Mrs. Parker continued, "because they have a wider base to work...
King Calypso. The best band of the mid-40s was The Invaders, who are credited with introducing bouncing massed "riffs" in harmony, and thus paralleling the transition of U.S. jazz from Dixieland counterpoint to the massed effects of swing. Today the steelband has swept the Caribbean islands-there is a severe short age of oil drums and automobile brake drums. The music is also penetrating the U.S. through recordings and tours by stray bands. Last week Record-Maker Emory Cook carried his microphones and tape recorders right into the parade to capture steelbands...