Word: swing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This thing should not have happened." cried the Rev. Jack Hesketh, the local vicar, at Jimmy's funeral. "We are living in an age that has seen the swing of the pendulum of trade unionism. It was formulated originally to claim for man the right to live according to his principles, the right to bargain for his labor. Men fought, and some died for that. Trade unionism today is the very antithesis of that attitude. Now men have not got the right to think or act according to their principles. Perhaps Alcock has died to call our attention...
...wrong. Experimentation can go too far. But with all the experimenting that's going on these days, it seems to me musicians are beginning to go back to one basic thing: it's got to swing. Of course it isn't the same swing, because it has progressed; it's swing with finer harmonics...
...Last!"), refused to admit that General Bonaparte had ever become an emperor at all. As far as Larousse was concerned, Bonaparte should have dropped dead "at the Chateau de St. Cloud, near Paris, the 18th Brumaire, Year VIII* of the French Republic, one and indivisible." "Que Vous Êtes Swing!" Today Larousse no longer goes in for such acerbity, but in its own way, it still manages to mirror the changing spirit of France. Under angoisse (anxiety), the new supplement quite naturally includes a discussion of existentialism; under égalité (equality), it notes that the "preamble of the [French...
...small village trying to thwart the stuffiness of legal procedure. Faced with losing their venerated by uneconomical railroad service, the population decides to buy the line and operate it themselves. Since the train provides a convivial place to drink before the doors to the town pub officially swing, an affluent lush happily furnishes the money for the project. Intrigue follows in the form of nefarious busline operators and a pompous London transportation official. However, a sentimental cleric, who gets the town behind him by pointing out the local motive for having the railroad, provides sufficient opposition...
...Hatoyama in Hatoyama's mansion in downtown Tokyo and was welcomed with smiles. There were polite comments on the weather, polite inquiries as to health. Then Yoshida asked Hatoyama to return to the fold, Hatoyama replied that he would be glad to, but was not sure he could swing the others. Said Yoshida: "I would still be most happy to welcome you back, even if alone." It was a gracious, shrewd and extremely persuasive thing...