Word: swingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every weekday, at 15 minutes past noon, the bronze doors of Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University swing open. Four hours of lectures in Latin have just ended, and as the 2,600 students at the world's largest Roman Catholic seminary pour down the marble steps of "the Greg," a babble of a dozen languages fills the air. Germans, known in Rome as gamberi rossi (red lobsters) because of their flaming scarlet cassocks, mingle with purple-clad Scots, Latin Americans in black robes and blue sashes with seminarians from the U.S. in black soutanes with red-andblue cinctures...
...Library groups students by twos and threes. When the library is half empty it is possible to be alone; otherwise the student is inevitably part of a group. He can chat with the person next to him without attracting angry glares, and he senses each move his partners make. Swing-out tables are provided for crowded days, but these are not partitioned and could well prove as unsatisfactory as the center tables in Lamont...
...eight Ivy League football teams swing into full action against each other this afternoon, and the two teams which were stung last Saturday are likely to be doing the stinging today...
...toast Fred Waring's five decades on the bandstand. "The greatest thrill of my life," he said, and returned the salute by leading the Pennsylvanians in a nostalgic Waring blend of chorus and orchestra. Next week at 66, Fred's off on his 1966-67 country-wide swing, which he's calling "The First Fifty Years...
Evangelist Billy Graham's huge summer crusade did not so much as rattle a window in Lambeth Palace, residence of the Church of England's Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Michael Ramsey, 61. Stepping off a plane in Vancouver, B.C., during a swing of his own through western Canada, Ramsey conceded that Billy may have "won some converts" but insisted that "we don't need his type of evangelism in England." In these perilous times, he continued, England "needs a thoughtful approach to religion, not bursts of emotionalism." Mused Billy, in thoughtful reply: "Interesting, in view...