Word: swing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wearing sweet-smelling jasmine and a gay sarong, a Burmese beauty queen welcomed Chou En-lai to Rangoon last week, on the second stage of his triumphal swing around Asia. Thousands of well-organized Chinese flourished pictures of Mao Tse-tung, chanted Communist slogans and scattered rose petals as Chou drove into town from the airport. But fewer than 500 Burmese bothered to line the street, and it seemed that Rangoon, 1,100 miles nearer Dienbienphu than India's New Delhi, was not quite so enthusiastic about its Red China visitor...
...teacher-training program to alleviate L.A.'s perennial shortage, the Herald & Express erupted once again. The whole idea, the paper grumbled, seemed to be some sort of plot. Had not the foundation's former President Paul Hoffman favored UNESCO? Was Stoddard thus merely using the grant "to swing UNESCO . . . back" into the schools again? "Pink Socialism." cried the paper-and Stoddard was forced to drop the grant...
...staff, Wynn, Lemon, Garcia, Feller & Co., he almost always turns in a creditable performance. At the plate he is always a threat. In all pennant-hungry Cleveland, there is no happier sight than Al Rosen, firmly established in the batter's box. The ball steams in, his hips swing in a fast little shake, his left leg lifts for a quick thrust forward, and the big bat whips around. It has connected often enough to make him the league's second-ranking batsman, after his teammate Bobby Avila. (Average .340, 14 home runs, 55 runs batted...
...hurricane that should be expected in the next 50 years, but they are dangerous to ..erect except in a glassy sea. The critical moment is when the heavy jacket is lifted from the deck of the barge and set upright in the sea. Even gentle waves can make it swing like a pendulum, tipping the barge, pulling the crane out of line, snapping thick steel cables. Sometimes an erecting barge has to wait for costly weeks before the sea is calm enough to risk a dash to the drilling site...
...invented a leather sleeve device to serve as the missing arm for one-armed golfers, a crutch with a retractable spring so that one-legged men could go bowling, a special hook with which a one-armed man could swing a softball bat, a series of gadgets for fishermen. Then he took a leave of absence from the Press, spent three years touring every major veterans' hospital in the U.S., teaching 50,000 veterans how to use his contraptions...