Word: swingful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...threat was triple: Chernyakhovsky's forces aimed at the East Prussian border; Rokossovsky's and Zakharov's forces aimed directly west toward Berlin, but could swing north to envelop East Prussia, or north and south to envelop Warsaw; Konev's huge bridgehead on the upper Vistula pointed at Cracow and German Silesia. Most of the surface activity last week was in the Balkans, but the great drive had passed from the explosive to the mopping-up stage. The noises from Berlin betrayed well-grounded anxiety about the sectors north of the Carpathians, the direct menace...
Last week Rome's social season was in full swing...
...four months the Browns had clung stubbornly to the League lead, despite all predictions of an inevitable slump. On their final Eastern swing, they got by the Yankees and Red Sox all right. Then they hit the skids. In Washington, they made the tactical mistake of taunting the tail-ending Senators. The jeers stung the Senators to life and they won three of the four games. On the way home, the Browns lost four out of six. Back home, they quickly lost another three out of four to the Tigers...
...King of Swing Goodman is giving his annual free concert at Chicago's Dearborn Settlement House. An excited urchin snatches Goodman's clarinet, is chased to a tenement home where his factory-worker brother, Johnny Birch (James Cardwell), is improvising on the trombone. Overheard by Goodman, Birch is hired for the band, goes on tour, gets vamped first by the band's singer, Pat Sterling (Lynn Bari), later, by Trudy Wilson (Linda Darnell), a luscious New York socialite. Birch tries to start his own band, fails miserably, goes back to a factory job. But Goodman and Trudy...
...late Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis, began his professional life as a hypnotist. Failing to cure neurotics by hypnotic suggestion, he gave it up to develop his analytic technique. Some Freudians have recently begun to swing back to certain possibilities of hypnosis -among other things - as a shortcut to cure...