Word: swivelling
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...into Lana Turners. As for the male prototype: "a very large head, one eye, an ear bent permanently to receive a telephone call, one hand with only a thumb and forefinger so it can sign checks and documents, no legs, and a very large bottom to sit in a swivel chair...
Thomas from his presidential swivel chair. Thomas had the support of U.A.W.'s Communists (not that they loved Thomas so much as that they hated Reuther more), of Secretary-Treasurer George Addes, of everyone else who disliked or feared bumptious, ambitious Walter Reuther...
Frank Sinatra prepared a seat for himself on the swivel-chair side of the entertainment business. Incorporated in California: a million-dollar sports-&-spectacles arena (still on paper). Mr. Big: Sinatra...
This year, from Stuart to Key West and around the Keys to Shark River on the Gulf, some 300 swivel-seated, outriggered fishing boats, some fresh from Coast Guard duty, are regaining their prewar business. Boat rentals are up from $40 to $60 a day. Most boats carry four fishermen, a captain and mate; the best are comfortable cabin boats. For the opening of the 99-day Metropolitan Miami Fishing Tournament this week, all Miami-berthed boats are duty-bound to parade, with flags flying, down Biscayne...
...month ago bunchy, belligerent James Caesar Petrillo, president of thg A.F. of L.'s American Federation of Musicians, lolled back in his well-cushioned swivel chair and dictated a letter to the radio networks...