Word: swingeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fairchild has taken the remaining orders largely "on good faith." The feeders would also like to buy France's speedy (500 m.p.h.) Caravelle pure jet. But only San Diego's Pacific Southwest Airlines, with three Caravelles on order (at $1,950,000 apiece), has been able to swing a deal...
...Laden Craft. In Newport, R.I., the City Council is considering an ordinance requiring the town's 92 barkeepers to have their doors open outward (64 now swing in), on the theory it should be easier for a man to leave than enter...
...Needles. Proponents of a live but attenuated virus, in a vaccine made to be taken by mouth, predicted a swing to their method. Cincinnati's Dr. Albert Sabin (TIME, Oct. 15) suggested that his method might be the answer for poor countries whose people cannot afford three Salk shots at $1 each, or where migrant populations cannot be brought together three times at the right intervals...
...variety of special European junkets (e.g., for gourmets, winebibbers, music lovers), a Los Angeles travel agency added a new item: the hypochondriac's tour. The eight-week swing through Europe will be shepherded by a staff internist from a California sanitarium. "Conversation regarding ailments and ill health will be taboo," announces the brochure. "While anyone feeling ill will request and promptly receive treatment, our physician leader will, except in private consultation, act as one of the party out to enjoy the sights." Cost for the trip, including first-class travel and physician...
Some of the topics covered by McLellan were: the "blues," that aped the human voice; the rococo-like ragtime; the tension-relaxation principle of "swing," wonderfully illustrated by a piece called "Nobody Will Room With Me"; the small "spasm" or "skifflle" bands of home-made instruments; the staccato phrasing and polish of Bix Beiderbecke; Paul Whiteman, who "tried to make a lady out of jazz and wound up with a eunuch"; the wider tone colors and neo-jungle rhythms of Duke Ellington; the two-beat music of Jimmy Lunsford; Benny Goodman and the importance of his Fletcher Henderson arrangements...