Word: swunged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...throne room at Columbia Pictures resounded with the whoosh of an outsized riding crop swung in anger. Scepter in hand, striding before two rows of Oscars at stiff attention behind his vast desk, Columbia's stubby and balding Boss Harry Cohn fumed with the king-sized wrath of the last Hollywood despot who still runs the studio he built. The year was 1953, the object of his wrath Rita Hayworth, Columbia's reigning love goddess; Rita had flounced out and left the studio with a costly stack of properties bought just for her. Before Cohn's desk...
...concrete shield of the cyclotron swung open, and a masked scientist dashed wildly down a 100-yard corridor in a race. His opponents: a set of disintegrating atoms. Though it was quite unlike the procedure normally associated with the grave and careful laboratories of science, the race was crucial to the performance of that increasingly difficult feat-the identification of a new element. The story of how the 100-yard dash helped a team of international scientists create element 102 is told in SCIENCE, Chemists...
...feeling that her fingers are clutching his lapels. But for sheer limb-risking vigor as a lady of 50 with five grandchildren, she is worth goggling at. In her pantomimic specialty, she has enacted cats, urchins and tramps, done somersaults, cartwheels and pratfalls, careened on roller skates and horses, swung from a chandelier and a trapeze; acrobats used her as a jump rope. Kathryn, an off-screen wit, belittles the on-screen Kathryn: "You just lend your body to anyone you know is strong." One of her daughters once asked: "Mother, do you think these things are really quite suitable...
...Farmingdale (N.Y.) High School Band displayed the driving big-band style of a Count Basic or a Woody Herman, the fancily punctuated choruses of sidemen who have played together for years. With a lazy, slushy beat, the band swung into A Ghost of a Chance, faded while 14-year-old Andrew Marsala launched an intricately woven alto-sax solo, then came back strong and brassy, only to fade again before Marsala's languorous solo finish. Although some of the band members could scarcely reach the floor with their feet, they never lost the instinctive surefire phrasing that produces...
...Betsy Rawls, who had the second best 72-hole total of 299. ¶Turning the biennial Newport-Annapolis race around and sailing northward made some refreshing changes in the East Coast yachting classic: more boats than ever before (48) beat down Chesapeake Bay from the starting line; they swung north toward -Newport, and 32 of them broke the elapsed-time record for the 468-mile course. Winner on corrected time: the 41-ft. sloop Harrier, owned by Jay Bontecou and W. Reese Harris, skippered by her former owner, C. Raymond Hunt...