Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plane plunge toward the ground like a plummet. Anxious watchers saw a white mushroom suddenly billow above the dropping craft. With a jerk, the plane's fall was retarded to a comparatively gradual downward float, about 38 ft. per second. At first there was a sideways swing to the suspended plane, then it hung even below its straining, air-filled life-preserver, to which it was harnessed by five stout cables. In slightly more than a minute the plane, with Pilot Oelze safely in it, settled upon a hillside with no damage other than a cracked propeller and smashed...
Toward evening of the third day's fighting, some 30 men sat silently thinking, and when the sun had dropped behind vast Mont Real they had reconsidered and restruck every swing and slash of the three-day battle and each knew why and just where he had lost the prize, but they could do nothing. Nothing except congratulate the winner, a freckled mite of a Scotsman, Macdonald Smith...
...swing of the half year brought many a night-bound bookkeeper to footing vast earnings which were last week made known...
...What we gwine to play, Monk?" he said to his brother. The passing of the thing in the glass carriage had left him with a sense of liberty that made him swing his arm and adorn his preliminary question with rhetoric. "Whata we-all gwina play, Monke-ee-Monk-eee-Monk...
...Turnesa, waiting beside the green for Jones's club to swing down, the strain was quite as great as it would have been if, in match play, he had been taking stroke for stroke with Jones. It had been a strange tournament. Most of the scores were posted in the club house, but anyone might still win it-even Jones. Turnesa had the likeliest chance. His 294 led the field. Leo Diegel, until he took a six on the short sixteenth, had seemed a sure winner. Hagen -"Third Round" Hagen-had thundered around, burning up the course...