Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began in the summer of 1943 during the manpower shortage, when two female disc jockeys who had been "whirling the platters" for the Harvard Network's "Swing Out" program decided that 'Cliffedwellers needed a station of their own. At the start "R-squared" was WHRV's baby. Aside from a $25 good-will gift from the Annex board of hall presidents, the only assets the embryo enterprise possessed were duplicate records and rejuvenated equipment cast off by the Network...
...line with MacArthur's orders, the deepest northern penetrations were made by South Korean troops. On the right flank of the U.S. forces, the R.O.K. 1st, 7th and 8th Divisions joined the R.O.K. 6th Division in a swing northwest of the enemy's main line of retreat, then cut back to the northeast along the Chongchon River. By week's end the 6th Division was north of Huichon, about 50 miles south of Manchuria...
...retreat of French forces from their strongpoints along the Chinese border was still in full swing. Langson, a fortress often regarded as the key to Hanoi itself, was abandoned without a struggle. Communist Ho Chi Minh's Viet Minh troops, now no longer guerrillas but a regular army with mortars, heavy artillery and radio communications, pressed hard...
...lost, next summer, all or most of our present students and got no new students for two years? All private colleges are in economic difficulties now some of the weaker ones might go under. Others would be in a weakened condition for years and the balance would swing strongly towards the tax-supported institutions. Harvard would survive no doubt and, provided the bills could be paid, it would be an interesting experience for the faculty and the deans to have two years with no students, no CRIMSON, no football team, etc. Presumably Radcliffe would go on, a little lonely...
Since President Truman appointed Tom Clark and Sherman Minton to the Supreme Court a year ago, many people have maintained the Bench's decisions show signs of a swing to the right. Others have argued that there has been no change or that, if anything, the Court is more liberal than before...