Word: swingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nikita Khrushchev doesn't swing, according to Benny Goodman...
...Soviet audiences were especially fond of Dixieland and swing numbers, but many wanted to hear more modern jazz. "They asked why I hadn't brought along Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, or some 'progressive' jazz man," Goodman said...
Goodman added that the young people in his audiences were the most enthusiastic for jazz. "The only badly received concerts came on opening night in each town when the bureaucrats turned out. Those government workers just don't swing," he mused...
...aboard, not forgetting three tons of household belongings. For added protection the plotters shoveled a ton of coal and potatoes into the back of the bus. Then they chugged off north toward Berlin along back roads to escape Communist patrols. Just before they reached the Wall, they planned to swing west in order to enter the East-West Autobahn leading to the U.S. sector of the city...
...summer in the Southern Hemisphere, and in Buenos Aires the days are blazing and the nights sticky. The place to get away to is Mar del Plata, Argentina's favorite Atlantic resort, 250 miles south, and last week the annual migration was in full swing...