Word: swingful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terrifying about the newest pill: Jimmy Byrnes's midnight curfew on bars, nightclubs, theaters, and other places of entertainment. In most U.S. cities bars close by 1 a.m. and most U.S. citizens go to bed betimes, anyhow. Even on those it most directly affected-nightclub owners, entertainers and swing-shift workers-the curfew would work no insurmountable hardships. But many a U.S. citizen asked suspiciously which home-front ailment the curfew was designed to cure...
...Texas Too. In San Antonio, Texans asked if the curfew applied in Texas too, and many added: "If it does, we'll just have to start getting drunk an hour sooner next Saturday." The only ordinary citizens who would really be inconvenienced were swing-shift workers. Many of them thought their lives were uncomfortable enough anyhow; there is something chronically annoying about working from 4 in the afternoon until midnight...
...Swing-shifters go after recreation in the small hours of the night, and in war-boom cities, dancehalls, bowling alleys, cinemas and skating rinks have swing-shift hour periods. Last week a Los Angeles aircraft local of the United Automobile Workers protested to Byrnes: "We seriously feel this order will retard production . . . rather than speed...
House basketball will swing back into action next term immediately after compulsory athletics begin, it was announced recently by Adolph W. Samborski, Acting Assistant Director of Physical Education...
...peninsula and "the Rock" had been lost, with Lieut. General Jonathan M. ("Skinny") Wainwright, because the U.S. had tried to do too much with too little. Last week, while one of his armies (the Sixth) fought the cornered Japs in southern Manila, General MacArthur had ample force to swing another of his armies (the Eighth) down Bataan and across the four-mile channel to the Rock. Wainwright and his men were not yet fully avenged, but the sweetness of revenge to come...