Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assault on the Rockies was in full swing last week. In the van marched a squad of bushwhackers, armed with double-bitted axes, to clear a 50-ft. right-of-way. Behind them came bulldozers rooting out stumps and blasting crews cutting passes through the rocks for a new heavy-duty highway...
...possessions in Dayton's public library museum has been a rare portrait of Abraham Lincoln without his beard. A small, clearly drawn painting, it was by a local artist named Charles W. Nickum, who, so the story went, got Lincoln to pose for him one day on a swing through Ohio in the late 1850s. A committee of Dayton's citizens gave Artist Nickum's widow $1,000 for it in 1928, and the museum has swellingly displayed it for the edification of Lincoln fans ever since...
...domestic troubles. What can the U.S. do about it? It has learned that denouncing Perón only makes him more popular at home. More recently it has learned that sending one businessman-ambassador after another, tempting Perón with the illusion that he can still swing a bail-out deal with the U.S., is worse than useless. En route now to Buenos Aires is a different kind of ambassador, a capable but little-known careerman who is unlikely either to sass or salute a defiant neighbor. Even Perón should be able to grasp that Albert Nufer...
...symphonic" bands were the rage. Napoleon organized one of his own. Among its 15 members were Glenn Miller, Russ Morgan, Joe Venuti, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, and Artie Shaw. It anticipated the age of swing by half a dozen years, but never caught on outside of Brooklyn. Phil Napoleon left the jazz business and became a trumpeter-of-all-work at N.B.C. There, for 22 years, he played "Stravinsky one hour, soap opera the next." Finally he decided he was ready to quit playing...
...average of the other eleven months. Reason: June is the last month of the fiscal year, and unspent money on hand at year's end might give Congress the idea that the agencies could get along on less. Last week, with the year-end spree in full swing, Government-spending was costing each American family some $37.50 a week in taxes, as compared to a weekly average of $28.80 for the other months of the year...