Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sing the Gettin' In The Swing Of It Blues...
Then Sing Getting' In The Swing Of It Blues...
...getting in the swing of it, swing...
...experiments with certain gadgets to reverse the thrust of a jet engine. The type that finally worked best for Boeing is a divided, clamshell-like contraption that normally fits snugly around the end of the tailpipe. When the airplane has touched the ground, the halves of the clamshell swing backward and inward, cutting the blast of hot gases and partially reversing its direction...
...four-week good-will swing around Latin America, pink-cheeked Ludwig Erhard, West Germany's Minister of Economics, stopped off last week in Chile. As in Mexico, where he opened his tour by attending the inauguration of a $25 million German industrial fair, he was welcomed as the fiscal wizard who symbolizes West Germany's spectacular economic comeback. Santiago's press gave him the Page One treatment, university professors asked him to lecture, and Chile's much-regulated businessmen applauded till the walls of the Union Club vibrated when he told them: "There is no miracle...