Word: swing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carrousel set up under a towering Christmas tree. Housewives were already shopping for the traditional carp that will be kept alive in a tub until it is served up, garnished with an apple in its mouth, at the Christmas meal. In Prague, the theater season is in full swing, offering everything from My Fair Lady to Sartre's The Flies, and the national passion for ice hockey is sated nearly every night on television...
...song that Miss Bavan did well. Perfectly-paced musically by Ivers, the song had a near blues-tempo, created by a softly rushing rhythm section and featuring some quivering solos on harp and sax. On "Gentle Jesus," another complex piece that switches from abstract dissonances to a version of swing, Ivers achieved a synthesis of blues and jazz on Paul Butterfield's In My Own Dream model...
...swore in the seven-man authority established under an act passed in the last session of the legislature. The members of the authority have not yet met nor selected a full-time executive director to supervise their operations, but it is believed that their work could be in full swing by the spring...
...group of New England farmers at a town meeting wants to tear down the town's last covered bridge to avoid paying the $3000 needed to keep it in good repair. The town selectmen, however, have different ideas, and manage to swing the meeting over to their side, by reminding them of other possible costs. Cooke writes, $3.000, it was suddenly discovered, looked like a bargain. So they voted it, in theory to preserve the "old wooden covered bridge," in fact as an insurance premium against damage suits and as a bait to hook the nibbling "historical element...
...Underdeveloped country like hell!" proclaimed posters plastered all over Sāo Paulo last week. Brazil's sixth national automobile show was in full swing in the city's exhibition hall at Parque Ibirapuera, and auto manufacturers were making the most of their opportunity to trumpet that in one decade Brazil has managed to develop a viable motor industry. As recently as the 1950s, Brazil spent $140 million a year to import autos; last year, because of increased domestic production and higher tariffs, imports amounted to $3,000,000. This year the country's carmakers will turn...