Word: swingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...swing the deal, Hamilton flew to Hong Kong, ate 14-course meals with the Communist negotiators and cruised the harbor on their yacht. He nailed it down by offering credit: 25% down and the balance in nine months in each year of the contract. Though Opposition Leader Mike Pearson delicately questioned the propriety of offering better credit terms to Peking than to friendly nations, most Canadians seemed too busy counting the goodies to make any complaints. If all went well (as Communist deals do not), Canada's recession-hurt railways would move 142,000 carloads of grain...
...does not blame the U.S. for Cuba's swing toward Communism. "No U.S. policy could have changed what has happened in Cuba," he insisted. Cubans who come to this country to seek aid "practically had to sew up their pockets to keep the U.S. from putting checks in them." But Castro refused all government aid, insisting that he would take money only from private U.S. banks--because he was certain no private bank would risk economic support to the revolutionaries, Ray maintained...
Among traveling statesmen, Africa is the favorite new tourist spot. The latest is Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, who last week was winding up a vast swing around Africa's west coast...
...batter's box, he coils into a carbon copy of St. Louis' Stan Musial. His stance is closed, his right knee is slightly bent, and he scowls at the pitcher over a high-cocked elbow. When he unwinds, his swing is level and lightning-quick. His reflexes are so fast that even bad balls become good targets. In his first time at bat in a major league game, Boston Rookie Carl Yastrzemski sliced an outside fast ball into leftfield for a single. Next game against the Los Angeles Angels, he drove in two runs, hit a single...
...favorites with poise and trombone clarity. The Grandisons have had little musical training. They left the sawdust trail only this year, after singing in churches all over the South, to try the nightclub circuit. The four write their own arrangements, frequently substitute new words in standard spirituals-e.g. Swing down, sweet chariot/ Stop and let me ride/ Rock me, Lord/ Rock me, Lord/ Rock me, Lord/ Calm and easy...