Word: swing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...waves with choice blends of camel drivers' curses, ancestral aspersions and bogeyman bombast. Heckling Hussein as "the little king" and "a British Zionist agent," Nasser's radios warned Hussein and "his gang" that the Jordanians would soon "hang you on poles and watch your rotten bodies swing...
What makes the council so anxious for conversation is concern that Eastern Orthodoxy may yet swing toward Rome. Protestants worry that Pope John XXIII intended to invite Orthodox, but not Protestant, delegates to his Ecumenical Council in 1961 (TIME, Feb. 9). Last week the Catholics took pains to allay the fears-at least for the present. At an informal conference. Pere Christophe Jean Dumont, head of a five-man Catholic contingent, explained that the Pope's first announcement had been misinterpreted; none but Roman Catholic bishops were ever to have been invited. Later, though, Pere Dumont tossed...
Other agents have set up "bachelor tours" (which many married couples join), tours that swing through great museums or restaurants, great beaches or battlefronts. Three years ago Camera Bug Eric L. Ergenbright of North Hollywood opened his own agency, this year is running 30 camera tours-in Japan, South America and elsewhere-with live models and expert photographer-guides. One agency set up a religious tour of Israel, complete with kosher food, tossed in a surprising fringe benefit: a special audience with Pope John XXIII on the way back...
...Francisco, Willie is as cool as his bat is hot: in his first seven games, he hit three home runs, scored nine runs, drove in nine more, and batted .467, as the Giants won six to stay in first place. To get Willie's smooth, uncoiling swing into the lineup. Manager Bill Rigney willingly put him on first base in place of another 21-year-old slugger: Orlando Cepeda, the Giants' leading hitter (.315), the National League's first baseman for both All-Star Games, and the team's most popular player with San Francisco fans...
...shunted in three years' time from the Orioles to the White Sox to the Tigers to the Indians, where he began the year on the bench. In Cleveland, Francona was soon coaxing players to pitch to him by the hour in the empty stadium, gradually improved a swing that had always been basically sound. Manager Joe Gordon took a hand. "He got me to swing down on the ball-what he calls 'tomahawk' it-so I'd level out my swing," says Francona. In June, Francona broke into the starting line-up (at first or center...