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Word: swing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were Ginger Rogers or Fred Astaire among the dancers in the brightly lit Lowell House dining hall. In fact, the dancers were far from the tap greats of the silver screen, but students swinging for the first time. The students had put on their dancing feet to prepare for the annual Swing Dance Lowell House will host tomorrow night...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Swinging Into Action | 4/24/1987 | See Source »

...students attending the course shared one thing in common: a genuine desire to learn how to swing dance. But there the similarity stopped. Motives varied, skill varied as did personal style...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Swinging Into Action | 4/24/1987 | See Source »

...glad I know how to do the swing now," said Louisa Oliver '90. "Otherwise I'd make such a fool out of myself on Saturday--I took dance lessons in seventh grade, but we never learned the swing...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Swinging Into Action | 4/24/1987 | See Source »

Current Lowell House residents attested, however, that knowing how to do the swing is not a prerequisite for entering the house. In fact, many also confessed to complete ignorance of the dance...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Swinging Into Action | 4/24/1987 | See Source »

...some of those in attendance were not concerned with perfecting their swing ability so much as perfecting the moves of a swinger...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Swinging Into Action | 4/24/1987 | See Source »

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