Word: swivelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kids are at Walpole--and continue to come back week after week--needs explaining too. Norm, a 16-year-old black from a Roxbury housing project, is willing to do it. He leans back in the swivel chair, crossing his high-top sneakers on the prison guard's desk. The guard--Kevin Glynn--doesn't care. A rare exception among the guards, he's as much a part of Reach-Out as the inmates and kids...
...musky voice that seemed to take its honey coating from a lot of scruffy worldliness and its distinct throb from straight below the waist. His first appearances were small Pop cataclysms. The sensuous movements that headline writers called "gyrations" and that earned Presley nicknames he did not like-Swivel Hips, the Pelvis-had their roots in roistering responses of some fundamentalist congregations...
...Marines, they argue, underes timated the difficulties of flying a plane that rises and descends on a hot shim mering column of air blasted from its own nozzles, which the pilot must swivel horizontally for ordinary flight. One reason why not just any eager young pilot should fly a Harrier, says British Air Commodore Paddy Hines, is that it must often fly at be tween 250 and 500 ft. - an exercise demanding "high concentration and a very hard work load from its pilots." Two-thirds of the R.A.F. Harrier pilots had at least 1,000 flying hours on other aircraft...
...AROUND US are signs that rock 'n' roll is getting old, and not just old but respectable too. Elvis Presley once outraged an older generation's aesthetic and moral tastes with his youthful exuberance and the sexual swivel of his hips. These days Las Vegas audiences pay huge sums to see the now 40-years-plus entertainer--grown paunchy with dyed hair and capped teeth--struggle through one abbreviated set. The Rolling Stones, defiant, sneering stars of the '60s, now mingle easily among the best of any Social Register crowd, and much the same holds true for other rock stars...
...masters of upmanship. A leader of Israel's elite Palmach commandos in 1948 and a hero of the 1967 war, Rabin seldom loses a chance to one-up his Defense Minister on military matters. During briefings by Peres (who never served in uniform), Rabin has been known to swivel impatiently in his chair, scowl and then ignore his minister by shooting questions directly at uniformed generals present. Complains a Peres aide: "Right from the start, Rabin was out to humiliate Peres in any way he could...