Word: swingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with MLF, which would take three years to build. West Germany is already pledged to match the U.S. offer to shoulder 30-40% of the initial $2 billion cost of building the 25-ship fleet force. Other NATO members likely to participate are Turkey, Greece and-barring a sharp swing to the left at home-Italy. Belgium and probably The Netherlands also will sit in on final dis cussions, starting in Paris Oct. 7, to settle details of financing and equipping the force. The big question last week was whether Britain would join...
Relax all over, put on a deadpan face, then you swing your hips and start twitching. Sounds like the twist? Wrong, man. That's the blues, a new British dance craze that comes complete with an added fillip. In one step, hands are clasped behind the back, and the dancer bends slightly forward. The brief lean is called the Philip, since it springs from the Duke of Edinburgh's inevitable hands -clasped -to -the - rear, trunk -inclined stance two steps behind the Queen. Says one London blues-Philip adept: "You just stand there...
...Swing from a Chandelier. The weekend's most elegant-and most destructive-riot broke out at Southampton, Long Island...
...after-party rolled merrily along into the morning, things began to get a bit out of hand when some of the boys began dancing on the mantelpiece and climbing around the rafters. Then somebody tried a swing from the chandelier, and-surprise, surprise-it came apart in his hands. But all hell didn't really break loose until after 10 a.m., when the music packed up and most of those not staying there went home...
...Yankee Joe Pepitone. Pepitone trotted down to first base, but a hot verbal exchange with Bell sent him running out to the mound, and the dugouts boiled over. The field jammed spectacularly, but like the American League race, it was all show and not much action. Push a bit, swing a bit, yell a bit and it was over: Bell was fined $50 for deliberately throwing at the batter, Pepitone was accused of incitement to riot and later fined $50, but the Yankees won as usual, and the runaway...