Word: swingeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...King of Swing is playing for dancing once again, and he is bucking a trend he himself started 20 years ago when Benny and his free-swinging sidemen had youngsters clustering around the bandstand to squeal and applaud their riffs and licks. Swing was the thing, and in 1938 Benny Goodman set an altitude record for jazzmen with his concert at Carnegie Hall...
Four house hockey games held the spotlight at Watson Rink last night as the winter intramural athletic program moved into full swing...
Organized amateur astronomers will be called on to track the satellite with binoculars or modest telescopes during its first revolutions, which will not be exactly predictable. When it settles down in its orbit, the professionals will take over. Eventually, the satellite will be slowed by air drag, will swing lower and lower, meeting more air and more drag. At last will come the wild moment when it plunges back into the atmosphere and turns into a streak of fire. As this stage approaches, the amateur satellite-watchers will be needed again. The orbit will be changing too fast...
...ambitious young college graduate, a working knowledge of Culbertson on Contract, and a limber swing off the seventh too would clearly be more advantageous than whatever he can remember of English Villages in the Thirteenth Century, and his hard-earned skill in step tests. Harvard's avowed objective is to produce "whole men," and "well-rounded members of society"--here is the administration's golden opportunity to accomplish this goal...
...PICTURES, originally bought by General Tire & Rubber Co.'s Teleradio subsidiary for its film backlog (TIME, Aug. 1), will swing back into full operation as a major moviemaker. After virtually shutting down under Industrialist Howard Hughes, RKO will start off with a $22.5 million budget for eleven films (among them: Cash McCall, A Farewell to Arms, The Syndicate) in the first six months of 1956 alone...