Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while it seemed as if Manhattan balletomanes might not get a look at the Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet, the junior of Britain's two Sadler's Wells companies. With the Metropolitan and City operas in full swing, Impresario Sol Hurok had to search high & low to find a theater. But last week, in a Broadway movie house, New Yorkers were making up their minds about the company that in the past six months has been a popular hit in the rest of the U.S. and Canada...
...landing was the first act of a bright stunt to promote U.S. travel to Britain. In the next 17 weeks, the buses and a British promotion entourage will swing through 46 major U.S. cities from coast to coast. For the cockney drivers, the first big test was to shake off a lifetime of keeping left in London's traffic; grimly they swung into right-hand U.S. traffic behind a police escort as they worked from the river over toward the welcoming ceremonies in midtown Manhattan...
...Virginia state trooper accused Bandleader Cab Calloway, oldtime King of Hi-De-Ho, of driving 65 m.p.h. and then offering a $10 bribe to be permitted to swing along merrily to a nearby racetrack...
...cardinal took a swing at Baptist Harry Truman for his recent press conference remark that he is not very fond of the present government of Spain. It showed, said Cardinal Segura, a "dislike of the Spanish people." But he seemed even more concerned about Spain's own regime: "The spirit of Catholics is worried over fear that, under the pretext of politics, concessions gravely prejudicial to religion may be made...
...electrically operated pressure gauge (manometer) that it claims is far more sensitive than any competitor. Invented by Swedish-born Frederick C. Melchior, it has four disk-shaped pressure chambers like those of ordinary aneroid barometers. But the movements of the disks in response to changes of pressure do not swing a dial needle. They are read, instead, by an electrical device that detects very small movements. Used as an altimeter, the instrument flashes a red light when raised three inches off a table...