Word: swivelling
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...lumbosacral strain was, by official accounts, coming along fine. After a couple of days of rest at Middleburg, the President hopped about on his crutches with decreasing evidence of pain. Although Kennedy had twice recently reinjured his back-once by tilting too far back in his black leather swivel chair, another time by leaning too hastily over his desk to sign some letters-Dr. Travell said that her patient would soon be off his crutches. Just the same, Kennedy canceled a trip to the Governors' Conference in Hawaii, bowed out as the guest of honor at the Women...
Anderson is a remarkable combination of military politician, diplomat, public relations expert, disciplinarian, moralist-and experienced Navy airman. He has flown Navy aircraft ranging from aged PBYs to new jets. He has commanded carriers, task forces and fleets, handled wartime air logistics in Honolulu and Washington, piloted postwar swivel chairs at General Eisenhower's SHAPE and as Admiral Arthur Radford's assistant on the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
With raw flair, swivel-hipped sex, lurid color and fundamental rhythms. King Kong has clapped a rough hand on English shoulders to lead its new audience through the shebeens (speakeasies) and back alleys around black Johannesburg. Great gum-booted miners dance with precision, township spivs glitter with menace as they re-enact a primeval war dance; shebeen Delilahs strut their stuff in the sinuous dance of the patha patha (touch, touch). Racy, swinging rhythms interweave tribal chants, European liturgical music and 1925 Dixieland stomps. Such certified-hit solos as The Earth Turns Over alternate with pennywhistle blues and a road...
...swivel-chair man, Piper travels some 75,000 miles a year to extol his planes' virtues, sometimes gets so wound up that he forgets to stop. "A speech is like an airplane engine," he says. "It may sound like hell, but you've got to go on." He admits he is a poor pilot, points to this as proof that anyone can fly a Piper. He flew his own plane until four years ago. when, says Piper, "My son finally said to me, 'Dad, wouldn't it make a hell of an advertisement for Piper Aircraft...
...suit also charges Chrysler's directors with making "extravagant and wasteful deals," e.g., for the marketing of the Simca French compact, a deal made, say the three stockholders, on "terms so disadvantageous that Chrysler has lost over $10 million." While swivel chairs spun in the law offices of Chrysler's attorneys, the word from the company's beleaguered executive suites was: "No comment...