Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scrapbook measurements, Vice President Nixon's 28-day, ten-country swing through Mexico and the Caribbean area was a bulging success. It brought reams of enthusiastic newspaper stories, and snapshots of Dick and Pat Nixon getting keys to cities, eating bananas in banana republics, shaking hands with grinning laborers, sipping coconut milk, greeting hospital patients, and-finally-getting the big welcome-home hug from their kids after landing in Washington last weekend. But between the scrapbook pages there was another story-the story of grueling, 18-hour days, of hard cramming that would stagger a Phi Beta Kappa...
Hatoyama, with the help of the Liberals, has a clear majority to conduct the day-to-day business of governing. But he does not have the two-thirds majority necessary for changes in the constitution. A leftward swing in national sentiment chopped another 21 seats away from the Liberals and transferred them to the two Socialist groups. The Socialists differ on many issues (the left-wing group often runs close to the Communist line), but they emphatically agree in their opposition to Japanese rearmament. Counting miscellaneous left-wing Deputies (among them two Communists), the Socialists can block any amendment...
...drawback: "I'm very sentimental, and sometimes I get the tingle from schmalz." Occasionally, the tingle is replaced by a cringe. Says Liebman: "I cringe at bad taste, at inept jokes, at sloppiness or any lack of fastidiousness." This season Liebman cringed during rehearsals of his swing production of Pinafore "because it was too bop. We had the contemporary beat but we had lost Gilbert & Sullivan." Once in a while, Liebman tingles but the viewers don't-they dialed away in droves during his 20-minute performance of the New York City Ballet's Filling Station. Since...
...pulls the ring, and then runs madly for "first base'' (the trough). If the ball is intercepted by mechanical "defensive players," she knows by experience that she will have to try again, so she hurries back to home plate with visible annoyance and gives the bat another swing...
Breland's chickens also count, play poker, shoot popguns and walk on tightropes. Trained in similar mechanical ways are ducks and geese that beat on drums, hamsters that swing on trapezes, goats that dance and highjump, rabbits that kiss each other, pigs that clean up a cluttered room. There seems to be no limit to the tricks that mechanical reward devices can teach to almost any animal. "All we have to do," says Breland, "is to keep the act within the known limitations of the given species...