Word: swingful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...task-a holdover from the first week's uncompleted assignment-was to use the British and Canadian forces on his left flank as a parry to ward off. Rommel's jabs, while he used Lieut. General Omar N. Bradley's U.S. army in a right swing against Cherbourg. Simultaneously, Montgomery had to win the "Battle of the Build-up." He had to bring in, over the beaches and through emergency landing facilities on the Bay of the Seine, enough men and material to make sure that he could stop the major counterblow by Rommel if & when...
...coast well within efficient fighter- plane range and economical shipping range of southern England; 2) to join and deep en them, thereby making a solid bridge head; 3) to drive southwest across the base of the Cotentin Peninsula, severing it from the rest of Nazi-held France; 4) to swing north and take (from the rear) the great port of Cherbourg. In the first week, everything depended on the Allies' ability to land enough sup plies on the obstacle-strewn beaches to sustain their forces until Cherbourg could be taken. Thereafter, Cherbourg would be the port of entry...
...landed in a pear tree, a rather good shock absorber. But the trouble was I didn't filter on through to the ground; instead I dangled about three feet above ground unable to swing far enough to touch anything...
...hundred times more likely that further classicists will prefer to make use of the authentic racial blues or jazz to achieve a nationalistic American music, just as Dvorak and Gershwin have in the past. Yes, swing is typical of a part of America--the part that is commercial and superficial, the part that is cafe society. By its very nature a compromise to public taste, it never reaches to the roots of American society, as do jazz and ragtime, since the general public always prefers to gloss over its roots...
...implication that "ragtime" and "jazz" have given birth to "swing" and then died because the public was bored with them, there is the irrefutable fact that more Americans today appreciate and study "jazz" than 40-odd years ago when ragtime and jazz were born in New Orleans. In those days, Americans--and Europeans--listened to symphony orchestras and military bands, and they danced only to string orchestras. Only the musicians and a small element of the Negro population knew this new American folk idiom. Today, the popularity of Duke Ellington among the name bands, the crowded bistros of New York...