Word: swingeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exciting generation of durable (and now middleaged) champion golfers. Of the great stars, no one has done as much to bring about the revival of the game as Samuel Jackson Snead, a brawny, balding Virginian of 42, with the drawl of a mountaineer and perhaps the most graceful, powerful swing ever seen on a course...
...most exciting thing in jazz is when a big band can make it," he says, trying to explain the obsession that returned him so often to the precarious profession. His first to make jazz was called "The Band that Plays the Blues," which blew its way around a swing-crazy countryside from 1936 until it was broken up by the draft. In 1944 he organized the Herman Herd, the band whose piledriver precision so bemused Composer Igor Stravinsky that he wrote his Ebony Concerto for it. The outfit made Herman the top bandsman in the land. He disbanded it because...
...that he did not get the best ride from Jockey Eric Guerin. The Dancer made a tremendous, express-train move, and pulled inside to the rail behind the front-running Dark Star. He was boxed in by a horse to his right and so Guerin had to pull up, swing him out and demand a big rush all over again. Once more, the Dancer surged in, pounded by Guerin all the way down the stretch, and almost caught Dark Star. He lost by a head. "In that last 100 yards or so,'' says Bill Winfrey, "he probably ran the fastest...
...Rich. One big reason Murchison is able to swing such varied deals is the tax bonanza enjoyed by all oilmen. This is the depletion allowance which permits them to pocket 27½% of their gross income (up to 50% of their net) before paying a cent of taxes. Such old-time Texas millionaires as Jesse Jones, who owns dozens of Houston's choicest buildings, and Publisher Amon Carter, whose Fort Worth Star-Telegram is Texas' biggest paper (circ. 241,582), were able to amass their first riches in other fields. So was Dallas' Leo Corrigan...
...varsity rowed smoothly and with noticeable swing as its opening stroke per minute start dropped gradually to 36 after the first 15 strokes. The beat then settled around 30 1/2 and 31 for the body of the race. Wisconsin's sophomore-laden crew lagged half to a full length behind, stroking one or two beats above the Crimson...