Word: swing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After eight seconds of this, the timer sounded his horn. Other cowboys closed in on the bucking sorrel, grabbed the halter and gave rangy (6 ft., 180 Ibs.) Bill Linderman a chance to swing safely to the ground. From the rodeo crowd came the happy hooting and hollering of people who know a good ride when they...
...Lorre, Marco Tulli, Ivor Bernard). "They're desperate characters," concludes one feminine fellow passenger. "Not one of them looked at my legs." The four, when pressed, declare that they are going to sell vacuum cleaners in Kenya ("Hut to hut?" somebody asks), but actually they are off to swing a big uranium swindle. Stranded at a small Italian port while their steamer makes repairs, the six fall in with a discreetly bogus British peer Edward Underdown) and his wife (Jennifer Jones), a virtuoso liar who spends nost of the picture in a state of cadenza...
Coolidge's associates remember him as a man of great physical energy, unselfishness, and a distinctive sense of humor. His lectures were "popular, vigorous, and never dull," says a former student. He was a man with "a fast, springy walk, a vigorous swing in his left arm, a romping puppy at his heels," commented a CRIMSON editorial when he retired...
...many Cambridge citizens, this market was not enough. In 1946 they formed the Washington Elm Memorial Committee and began to lobby for a fitting memento. After years of futile effort, they swing official Cambridge to their cause and, in 1950, the monument was built. On July third, after a two hour parade, the monument was dedicated, followed by the annual fireworks. since then, each year on Washington's Birthday, two American Legion posts and a Coast Guard color guard march through the Commons, leaving a wreath on the monument. This year the wreath was stolen a few hours after they...
...robber swing...