Word: swingful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last-week Europe's everlasting political chess game was in full swing. The stakes were the maximum: war or peace, national security, the survival of antagonistic ideologies, the preservation of social systems, the strategic control of whole nations and vast regions of the earth-for years to come...
...Democratic Senators have fought Franklin Roosevelt more bitterly than Missouri's mulish, rufous Bennett Champ Clark, who never forgets a grudge. (His oldest grudge: in 1912 young Franklin Roosevelt, 30, helped swing the Democratic convention to Woodrow Wilson and away from the Senator's father, the late Speaker Champ Clark.) Yet Bennett Clark, campaigning for his own third term, swallowed his isolationist line and pledged himself to support Franklin Roosevelt's peace program...
...separate swing, pointed boldly eastward, that could be developed into a concentrated drive on Paris...
Making a troupe slightly reminiscent of the Andrews Sisters but looking the way the Sistors A must have always wanted to look-the girls sing and swing through one of the fastest moving and zaniest comedies we've seen for quite some time. Betty Hutton does herself up brown by way of making new endurance records-90 minutes without standing still-and by doing an effective drunk scene that made us head for the nearest bar as soon as the show was finished. Dorothy Lamour looks a little strange in pinafores, after sarong in sarongs, but she is able...
Invited by Mexican and British authori ties to Mexico to conduct a festival of three Mozart operas, Sir Thomas arrived to find a rival opera season in full swing at Mexico City's only opera house. Promised Government support for his festival had failed to materialize. One of his leading singers, Basso Carlos Rufino, had recently shot an amatory rival in a Mexico City movie theater and was giving rehearsals a discouragingly defensive tone by packing a pistol...