Word: swingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PLAIN OLD BLUES (Emarcy). Art Hodes at the piano and Truck Parham on bass swing their way through a lexicon of the blues reminiscent of Chicago in the '30s (Washboard Bines, How Long, How Long Blues, The Chimes Blues, Snowy Morning Blues). All very backward-looking, comfortable and exceptionally cheery...
...stupidest thing of my life," he reportedly muttered afterward. The rule of 50% -or-a-runoff gave everybody, including Gaullist voters, a free and harmless chance to dissent. They could demonstrate distaste for his haughty ways and still set things straight at the runoff. It was a free swing at the genera], and swing they...
...colleagues, Jay therefore "broke instructions." He informed Lord Shelburne that he was prepared to hold separate talks with England, but only if England would acknowledge that it was dealing, not with rebellious colonies, but with the United States of America. Well aware that America was the lever that could swing the general settlement, Shelburne was delighted to lift the lever out of Vergennes' hands. He agreed to recognize the U.S., and on Oct. 29, 1782, negotiations began on a semisecret basis -that is to say, the U.S. commissioners truthfully told Vergennes that they were talking with the English...
Most pensioned chiefs try to swing back into action by getting onto the boards of charities, hospitals or universities. The discreet jockeying for such appointments can be intense. Perhaps the most prestigious board is that of Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, which includes such former chief executives as American Telephone's Cleo Craig, Texaco's Augustus C. Long, Jersey Standard's Monroe J. Rathbone, and B.B.D.&O.'s Bruce Barton, along with some distinctly unretired figures, such as General Motors' Frederic Donner and U.S. Steel's Roger Blough...
Betrayal. The Arab swing from the left is dictated by the hard facts of economic life: the need for Western aid, investment and know-how, the failure of extreme socialism to salvage the hemorrhaging economies of Egypt and Iraq. Algeria, too, under Colonel Houari Boumedienne, has retreated from deposed Strongman Ben Bella's far-left bent. And when Ben Bella went, Nasser lost his only real revolutionary pal in the Arab world...