Word: swingful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sense & Nonsense. It would take more than a handful of G.I.s to change the National League race. On their farewell swing through the East last week, Charlie Grimm's rampaging Chicago Cubs added to their impressive lead. They were now comfortably ahead of the only team that could make trouble for them-the second-place St. Louis Cardinals...
...President Truman said, a "harnessing of the basic power of the universe." That power is contained in the atom, the fundamental unit in nature. An infinitesimal universe in itself, the atom consists of a nucleus of protons and neutrons, around which electrons swing in widely spaced orbits, like planets around...
Ella Logan, ballad swinger on a U.S.O. swing through Europe, broke out (in Darmstadt, Germany) with a blast at fraternization, which looked to her like a Hitler dream-fulfillment. "Having gotten rid of a good part of the German male population, which normally would keep the population down," she reasoned, "I don't see why our boys should step into their shoes in that department...
...Only three, by virtue of "long experience," are "pre-eminently qualified": sober, tomb-toned Raymond Swing; painstaking, calm-voiced Edward Murrow; ponderous, staccato-voiced Johannes Steel...
...with Norfolk, Binghamton and Newark. Then the Yankees sold him to Boston. There he learned to pull the ball, spent hours trying to hit a roll of tarpaulin along the right field foul line. When the right-field fence at Braves Field was shortened, he learned to, swing for distance...