Word: swingful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arts prospered. Sweltering Maracaibo, the oil port, was about to get its own orchestra. A campaign against illiteracy - with matchbooks exhorting DON'T BE ANALPHABETIC!- was in full swing. The Government was distributing good cheap books, and it looked as though the new President of Venezuela's first representative government in generations would be Rómulo Gallegos Freire, a revered old novelist. A nation, most of whose citizens believe that the way to cure a cold is to grow a beard, found itself saying : "We've always had a grand future. Now we have a chance...
...Bolivia. On Nov. 1, All Saints' Day, the beginning of seeding time, the young men come with their guitars and swing the prettiest cholas from the boughs of tall willows. After that there is a picnic and next day, the Day of the Dead, everyone lays flowers in the cemeteries for those who swing no more...
Next week the heavy oak doors will swing open on the Met's 62nd season. Out front there will be strapless gowns in the boxes, and straphangers in the gallery; backstage there will be extras in armor, seamstresses in a hurry and props in the way. A good many of the fur-wrapped natives in the Diamond Horseshoe will be there under the same grim or triumphal compulsion that gets them to church once a year for Easter services. A good many of the gallerygoers will clump up 119 steps like pious martyrs, sure that they are the only...
Asking that progressives stand firm and "look to the next swing," James Loeb, national director of the Union for Democratic Action, told the Executive Committee of the Liberal Union last night that "while the present reaction was inevitable, its intensity and its duration depend on how well we prepare ourselves both programatically and organizationally to stop the sweep...
...Everything we do" said Loeb, "must have reference to the stream of American liberalism. We have to look to the next swing, and see to it that we have something better to offer than Gerald L. K. Smith...