Word: swishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ladies swish and titter in rooms once sacrosanct to cognac and cigars. Clubs that once disdained "activities" now stage musical evenings, lectures, seminars and even dances to lure members and their guests to the board and bar. Membership rolls have been expanded while services have been curtailed; a drink costs as much as or more than it does at the restaurant around the corner, and many a club member is doing well to get a ham sandwich on a summer weekend...
...quiet as Coney Island on Ground Hog Day are now echoing with cries of "Track!" ''Attention!'' "Pista!" and "Achtung!" (In many U.S. spots, "track" has been supplanted by golfdom's "fore.'') Spanking new lodges in a variety of architectural forms range from swish chalets to high-wayless motels; ski tows and chair lifts whir upward through clearings in the fir trees, queues of skiers wait patiently in the valleys to take dizzying trips to the peaks, only to dash back down to do it all over again...
...handful of the cold pozol and put it in our bowls, adding water and stirring it with the brown water. If it was not too many days old, it was not too sour. The Indians carefully cleaned out their bowls, picking up the last wet crumbs with a swish of their dark fingers around the inside of the bowls...
...tormented by a particularly hideous trauma. The only switch is that during rehearsal before the Philadelphia opening of Big Fish, Little Fish, the girls' school was a boys' school, the seduced girl was a boy-and the cast's private title for the play, Big Swish, Little Swish. The plot change may start Broadway theatergoers thinking. What do people in New Haven know about Willy Loman that others don't? Was Blanche DuBois named Bernie in Philadelphia...
...appeared. Alarmed, RCA in 1958 assigned an engineer-composer named Jack Somer. then 23, to see if he could save Toscanini for stereo. It took him two years to produce a recording that sounded convincing and that was not afflicted with such normal recording hazards as "grit, ticks and swish...