Word: swingeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...family reunion was supplied, as usual, by the Russians, who took advance counsel with no one. Swarthy, cob-nosed Andrei Gromyko led his 39-man crew off their two private Pullmans at the Oakland mole. They had come directly across the U.S. from Manhattan, without the customary protocol swing through Washington. Gromyko was stopped momentarily when a grey-haired little woman thrust a bunch of red roses into his arms. Then he retreated, in a private limousine flying the hammer & sickle, to the 39-room mansion erected by California's railroad-building Crocker family in suburban Hillsborough (which...
...five days, the National Convocation of Methodist Youth was in full throat and full swing at Lafayette, Ind. "I wonder what you have to do not to get applause in this crowd," said one speaker, after they had applauded him for sneezing. "I noticed last night that we even applauded after prayer...
...game is played at home and abroad. "The grass was higher, much thicker than it is in Holland. I found you have to hit the ball over there. Over here we stroke the ball and the ball rolls. Here we concentrate on teaching people how to swing. In America they concentrate on the hitting. I saw one guy go almost off his feet. If we see somebody do that here...
...smoky Manhattan bop-house called Birdland, a crowd of jazz fans gathered to hear a leisurely instrumental sextet skim through a performance that was neither Dixieland, swing, nor bebop. Not even a confirmed boppist could find a melodic phrase to sing "Ooble-dee-ah-de-coo" with, as the practice is nowadays; there was not even so much as a "Man, that's cool!"* Passionate disciples of blind Pianist-Composer-Theorist Lennie Tristano, 32, are much too conservative for such crudities...
Lesser guessers think that if Harry Truman decides not to run again, he will swing the Democratic nomination to his good friend United States Chief Justice Fred Vinson. If he did, the Gallup poll reported this week, today's voters would give Vinson more support (43%) than the Republicans' Taft...