Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Northern Hemisphere body of water opening to the south (like the Yellow Sea off Korea's west coast), the northbound flow tide tends to swing to the east. Reason: as the water moves away from the equator, it passes points on the earth's surface that are moving less & less rapidly toward the east in the earth's rotation. The tidal range of Korea's western coast is further increased because the incoming water is forced into narrow, shallow channels and heaped up there. Inchon, which lies on the western coast of the peninsula about...
Skirling loudly at the dockside, the Scottish pipers momentarily silenced a U.S. Army Negro band of welcome, but when the British soldiers shouted down from 'the docks, "Swing it, swing it," the U.S. band burst into a jive version of the St. Louis Blues. The Britons cheered. Many of them were World War II veterans; all had just completed 16 months' training in Hong Kong over hilly country almost identical with that of Korea. Said Sergeant George Morrison, sniffing the paddies: "It even smells the same." Attached to an American unit, the Tommies pronounced American rations "very good...
...Chairman Clarence Cannon, 71. McKellar yelled that Missouri's Cannon was "blind . . . stupid . . . pigheaded" and altogether "goddamned." Cannon, who several years ago traded blows with New York's brass-lunged John Taber, started after McKellar. The tottering McKellar grabbed his long-handled gavel and got ready to swing. Colleagues managed to keep the two old cocks apart...
...October, 16 more U.S. cities will be added to the 33 already linked by television's coaxial cable and microwave relay network. The swing to the south will tie in Louisville, Huntington, W. Va., Nashville, Greensboro and Charlotte, N.C., Jacksonville, Atlanta and Birmingham. Moving westward, the net will pick up Indianapolis, Rock Island, Ill., Davenport and Ames, Iowa, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Omaha and Kansas City. California's TV stations can join the national net late in 1951, when the final link between Omaha and San Francisco is completed...
Drill the Forehand. Ham Richardson has been playing serious tennis for four years. He picked up a racket one day, while his older brother was taking a lesson from a Baton Rouge pro named Jim Bateman. Bateman took one look at the twelve-year-old's swing, declared him a natural. After that, Ham gave up baseball and settled down for a few tennis lessons himself. After five lessons, Bateman packed him off to Chicago to play in a "13-and-under" tournament; Ham was runnerup...