Word: swing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dictating he likes to sit on the edge of the desk and swing a putter or a nine iron. Or sometimes he slips a specially designed 5-lb. weight over the toe of his left shoe, and swings the leg back & forth to exercise the knee which he injured during his West Point football career...
...matches today, both varsity teams, the Reds and the Whites, will swing into action, and the freshman B team will play M.I.T. away...
...piano tones. The holiday crowd quieted and the music took over, its tones pure and glassy, its melody suggested almost as much as stated, its long moments of silence as pregnant as the notes themselves. William "Count" Basie, the man who was as instrumental as Benny Goodman in popularizing swing, was back on the bandstand again, jumping high and handsome as ever...
...swing to diesels on U.S. railroads is still picking up speed. Union Pacific, already 60% dieselized, placed a $35 million order with General Motors for 205 more engines (190 freight, 15 passenger units) to be delivered in 1954, thus give the road 100% diesel through service along its main line from Omaha to the West Coast...
There are three squash matches on today's schedule. Both varsity B teams will swing into action with the Reds against the Harvard Club and the Whites against M.I.T. The freshman B team will play Lincolns...