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Word: swingful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enough men & women in uniform cast ballots, they could swing 1944-3 election. No one expects the U.S. Army & Navy, composed of Smiths and Smythes, to vote as a unit. But, conceivably, the candidate with the greatest appeal to soldiers & sailors will be the next President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bidding Begins | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

Once a dewy-eyed young thing stopped Fats and inquired, "Mr. Waller, what is swing?" Said he: "Lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: How Tom Is Doin' | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

...kilts, marched down to Victory Square to greet a group of visiting bagpipers from a Vancouver shipyard. The talk he heard made Democrat Magnuson uneasy. Said he: "The temper of the people is alarming. We've got to streamline these war agencies or the people will swing too far and have them abolished entirely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Face the People | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

...Swing Out, from Radcliffe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Network | 7/27/1943 | See Source »

Weapon to Swing. In the face of this all-out attack, Pan Am's suave President Juan T. Trippe was mum, but not idle. United Air Lines, second largest U.S. domestic line and operator of many an ATC route, had been reported in favor of the new committee. United did not appear at the second session. Then news came that United now favored a policy in which one company "or at the most two or three in different territories" should operate the U.S. share of international airlines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: 16 v. Pan Am | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

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