Word: swivet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...order to change things drastically. He has steadfastly stuck to that tactic, and hubbub follows him like a swarm of hornets. When he left Massachusetts to head the Illinois department of child welfare, he soon alienated the state's social workers, put the child welfare system into a swivet, and was forced to resign. But Pennsylvania quickly hired...
...funky tango from a '40s movie? Though it looks a bit like both, the step that has restored body contact to dancing is called the Hustle, and at big-city discotheques, from Manhattan's Leviticus to San Francisco's Penthouse, it is causing the biggest swivet on the dance floor since Chubby Checker roared in with the twist...
Tokyo is in a swivet over Ceausescu's abrupt cancellation of a visit to Japan that had been planned for early this month. Ceausescu begged off, lamely claiming that he was simply too busy...
...funniest sketches, a parfait of incongruities, is Columbus' discovery of America. Trying to convince Queen Isabella-Queen Isabel Johnson, that is-that she should cough up for the trip west, Columbus tells her that without America, there would be no Ray Charles. That sends her into a swivet. "Ray Charles?" she screeches. "You gonna find Ray Charles? He in America?" "Damn right," says Chris. After writing him out a traveler's check so that he can buy the Pinta, the Niña and the Santa Maria at the Army & Navy Store, a zonked-out Isabel announces...