Word: swingeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worried eye on the threatening sky and another on his demoralized cadres, President Ho Chi Minh last week took to the radio to exhort peasants to forget their grievances long enough to build up mud dikes against the coming monsoon floods, then set off on a 300-mile swing through the restive countryside to visit and cheer his flagging cadres...
...Philharmonia Hungarica hopes to take a 12-to 15-week swing through the U.S. some time next spring or summer. Another high hope: adoption by some U.S. city...
...already losing it when the syth National Open golf tournament had barely begun. Bantam Ben Hogan, bent on winning for the fifth time, lost out before he got to the first tee at Toledo's Inverness Club; his back and chest had him in too much pain to swing. Veteran Tommy Bolt sprayed his shots so badly that he quit after only four holes of the second round...
...20th Century-Fox), an unraveling of Alec Waugh's 1955 bestseller, is Moviemaker Zanuck's first lone-wolf production since he left Fox. This turbid plot-boiler clearly rates a special award as the sexiest West Indian travelogue ever made. The mating season is always in full swing on the throbbing Caribbean isle of Santa Marta, which doubtless boasts the highest imaginary birth rate of any 50-mile-long island under the sun. Island employs even the unsubtle cinema device of the screen-bottom exit, pointed up with gasps and romantic rustlings after its clinching couples drop from...
Died. James Francis (Jimmy) Dorsey, 53, saxophonist-bandleader, brother of Trombonist Tommy (who accidentally choked to death in his sleep last November); of lung cancer; in Manhattan. The Dorsey brothers played in the '20s, developed a soothing, sentimental style of swing that softened the Dixie beat, met swift success (between them they sold more than 110 million records); formed (1934) their own band but broke up in a tiff over tempo. Jimmy rejoined Tommy in 1953, was hard-hit by his brother's death...