Word: swingful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this was enough to send the Democrats into the campaign with a defeatist psychology which cost them still more votes. While Republicans plugged away with positive promises (such as the 20% tax reduction), Democrats stayed on the defensive. In close contests, poor Democratic morale was enough to swing the election to fighting GOPsters...
During the Christmas vacation the team will swing into Ivy League competition with a round robin tournament against Yale, Princeton and Dartmouth. Harvard, leading with fourteen victories in the past twenty-one contests, will seek to capture the championship cup for the fourth consecutive year...
Theodore Spencer, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, took opposite ground, declaring "such a move would be a great mistake, for it would tend to promote a nationalism in literature which is evil enough in politics." Admitting that the proposals were the logical swing of the pendulum and that American literature has unfortunately been too long neglected, he emphasized that any art which shows an understanding of humanity cuts completely across national boundaries...
Only four of the 1946 regulars will be missing in 1947: Captain Clee O'Donnell at tailback, center Jack Fisher, tackle Eddie Davis, and quarterback Henry Goothais. That the loss of those four will be keenly felt cannot be denied, but the remaining returnees more than swing the balance to the happy side...
...where Indianapolis Mayor Robert H. Tyndall has proclaimed "Hoagy Carmichael Day." Hoagy (short for Hoagland) was born in Bloomington, Ind. in 1899. His father was an electrician; his mother, an early ragtime pianist, played in a local movie. (Says Hoagy: "She's 70 now, but she can still swing the bass handle.") At 20, Hoagy went to Indiana U., then a hotbed of hot music, and promptly began flying about with a flock of undergraduate musicians known as the "Bent Eagles." Their diversions: "Sensuously . . . stroking lemon meringue pie," "muggling" (smoking marijuana) and writing such deathless lines...