Word: swingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hurt that he is a licensed pilot who flies his own twin-engined Aero Commander, goes so far as to call his new job a "merger of avocation and vocation." Says Prescott of his new colleague: "This guy is a brain. He's gutsy too. He wants to swing, wants to do things." The way it sounds, Hoffman should fit right in at Flying Tiger...
...Purely Financial." Far more of a shock was Charles de Gaulle's decision to pull out of a Franco-British project to build an advanced variable-geometry fighter as a European counterpart to the U.S.'s swing-wing F-lll. As the British government publicly interpreted it, the move was made on "purely financial grounds," but the whole truth is that the French have already gone ahead and developed their own variable-geometry fighter, the Dassault Mirage 3G, which is due to make its maiden flight this month. Presumably undisturbed is the ambitious joint project to build...
...circumcision rites of remote African tribes described by a dry, rustling voice like the crumbling of yellowed paper." On the city's famed markets in the fall: "Rows of hare-gray, attenuated Gothic sculptures-cling to the portals of butcher shops, flanked by pheasants whose brilliant tail feathers swing and whip in the breeze...
...down on the side of détente or defiance, and the answer to that question could shape world events for years to come. Says one East European diplomat: "They desperately want something to crow about." Moscow's policymakers, who have historically gyrated between common sense and ideological intransigence, could swing toward a hard line. Or they could consult the box score of the last two decades, tot up the strikeouts of international mischief, and opt for cooperation instead...
...modern corporation has become just too large for any individual to swing much power. The entrepreneur, like the father of a bee, "accomplishes his act of conception at the price of his own extinction." Shareholders cannot even pretend to power because ownership of stock has become so diffuse. Big capitalists and bankers have lost influence because the typical corporation generates its own funds and does not need to borrow so much. The corporation has also become so bafflingly complex that even the chief executive is often little more than a symbol, a cheerleader and a rubber stamp for decisions that...