Word: swingful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days before the Belgian elections, the New York Times's wise Anne O'Hare McCormick ascribed the Continent's swing to the left largely to postwar upheaval. She wrote: "People voting in Europe this year are not voting their permanent political convictions. They are voting their . . . reactions to immediate circumstances." Well-fed Belgians seemed to be the first to bear out this analysis. They added a piquant touch of their own: a predominantly leftist Government had led the return to prosperity, which resulted in gains for the friends of Leopold...
...pathetically awkward at making friends. Nevertheless he won underpaid Foreign Office hearts by going to bat for a general salary raise. When a friend suggested that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hugh Daiton, might object, Bargainer Bevin roared: "I'll take the worthy doctor by his pants and swing him around my head till...
...tired of being patronized by the swing kings. Says Bob: "They say, 'That guy made $340,000 last year and don't know what he's doin'.' Hell, I know what I'm doin' all right-I'm just playin' the kind of music my kind of folks like to hear...
...star may look as if it were on its own while revolving around (and concealing with its glare) a companion star as big as the earth's sun. Such double stars give themselves away by appearing to wobble as they swing around their orbits...
...been more than a year since Major Glenn Miller, the Army's swing Sousa of World War II, was lost in a plane crash. But last week 34 of his G.I. musicians, now civilians, opened on Broadway-still calling themselves the Glenn Miller Orchestra. A public that had not forgotten the Miller name (his orchestra was voted the nation's No. 1 sweet band in 1941) packed the house. The G.I.s, a little worried about how the public would feel about them, found the old Miller theme song still described it: In the Mood...