Word: swingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Humphrey Doerman '52, assistant to Dean Ford, played doubles with Peterson on the tennis team. "One of his impressive qualities, said Doerman yesterday, "was his ability to swing a divergent group, such as the freshman council or class marshals, into a consensus feeling. His friends were not restricted to one background, either...
...awakening and discussion of sex matters, the pendulum has swung from silence to publicity that is almost nauseating." So said E. K. Mohr, superintendent of the purity department of the International Sunday School Association. The remarkable thing is that he said it in 1914. The pendulum continued to swing beyond anything Mr. Mohr or his purity department could have foreseen. What was then a pioneering stand for frankness has become virtually commonplace, and what was then upsetting delicate souls or stomachs is now casually discussed in the classroom...
...largest passenger jet now in scheduled operation. Experimental craft ranged from Ling-Temco-Vought's V/STOL XC-142 to Martin Marietta's Lifting Body, in which astronauts may some day glide back from orbit. In military aviation, the star of the show was General Dynamics' swing-wing F-lll fighter, flown from the U.S. and shown for the first time abroad. No less anxious to unleash a spectacular were the Russians, who contributed to the show's remarkable catalogue of names and numbers with the YAK-40 jet transport, the turboprop AN-22 which can carry...
...expert horseman and huntsman, Edward learned to fly, to surf-and to swing, which in those days was called belonging to the "gay" set. In the whirling world of the '20s, whatever the prince wore became instant fashion: he popularized plus fours, decorative woolen sweaters, midnight blue tailcoats, tartan jackets and oversized knots in neckties. Aged 41 when he became king, he had long been the most eligible British bachelor since King Arthur. A near-worshiping public chanted the popular song: "I know a girl who knows a girl who danced with the Prince of Wales...
...suspect, these two strategies would fail, then at least there would be an organization in being that could be equipped to run a campaign on a national level. It is vitally important to envision such a proposed peace-and-civil-rights bloc as flexible and able to swing its support in different directions depending on where it might do the most good. Options are kept open not by waiting to organize but by waiting to commit our resources until other, more moderate, strategies are tried...