Word: swingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conferences and informal question-and-answer sessions), he impressed the experts with his detailed knowledge, eloquence and deft uptake. As the campaign surged into high gear, Kennedy left a jet stream of issues behind him (see box), along with the jagged seismograph of his public image. Getting into the swing of it, he proved that he can be as tough, skillful and attractive as any other candidate currently on the stump-and worthy of Dick Nixon's wariest respect...
Beer, tea-and coffeehouses loud with the sounds of Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie and Gerry Mulligan are sprouting like rice shoots in Japan's major cities. But Mama, Carrousel, Swing, or Fujiya Music Salon are nothing like Manhattan's Metropole or Birdland. Instead of the usual clutter of tables and clatter of highballs, Japan's hipsters sit in desklike seats set in rows of two, railroad-style, sipping their drinks in scholarly contemplation and rarely speaking, as jazz, either recorded or live, engulfs them in smoky parlors. Girls in the crowd affect tight toreador pants; the boys...
...caught up by one more manifestation of upsurging Southern interest in the Republican candidate. The week before, Nixon found the same enthusiasm in a five-hour hop to Greensboro, N.C. (TIME, Aug. 29). He found it again prop-stopping in ruggedly segregationist Birmingham as he began his day-long swing last week...
...time to time for whiffs from the inevitable atomizer. He still bitterly recalls one violent episode from this period. Sitting in a Buenos Aires bar one evening, Che was annoyed when a U.S. merchant seaman made a pass at a girl near Che. Che tried to get up to swing at him, but the bigger Yankee sailor slugged him twice, then casually put a giant paw on top of his head and pinned him down. Like a butterfly on a pin, a humiliated Che struggled until the crowd hustled the sailor away...
...they wanted in the old days was plenty of wood," recalls Bickel. Ty Cobb swung a 42-oz. bat, and Babe Ruth sometimes used bats weighing 48 oz. But styles have changed, and players now prefer lighter bats that they can swing more quickly. The Cubs' Ernie Banks uses a 31-oz. bat; the Giants' Willie Mays never goes heavier than 33 oz. The shape has changed too. Only White Sox Second Baseman Nellie Fox still uses a thickhandled bat; the rest prefer a slim handle. H. & B. keeps an index of the types...