Word: swing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have swapped many a rumor about his papers: Hearst was dickering for them; the Gannett chain was knocking at the door; Scripps-Howard would move in. Last week tanned, boyish-faced William Loeb, 41, crusading publisher of two small Vermont dailies, had taken-over in Manchester-and to help swing the $1,250,000 deal (he had put up only $250,000 of his own) had invited in a trio of shrewd news tycoons that New Hampshire had hardly heard of: the Ridder Bros., of New York and points west, whose favorite reading matter is not headlines but balance sheets...
...take cooking. It's just like jazz; no matter how good the ingredients are, it's how they're put together that counts." The speaker drove home his point with the help of a persistent, snappily manicured forefinger while overhead towered a big-busted swing singer traced in white tempera on the vine-colored wall which goes around the Savoy. He had a bald, top-shaped head ornamented with rimless glasses. This combined with the soft-spoken, non-alcoholized manner of speaking to which he kept doggedly despite the competition of a vociferous alto saxophone gave...
...smallest golfer in the crowd put all his 135 Ibs. behind one all-out swing. The ball screamed down the fairway, stopped 275 yards away. Ben Hogan was satisfied with his drive. That was the only shot in a tournament that he really enjoyed...
...those who can weather 20th Century Fox's high-school belly-laughs, "Margie" has a certain nostalgia that is alien to the Swing generation but sacred to its patents. All the touches, from "oh you kid," through the Charleston and Irving Berlin's "Always," down to the high-school debate over whether the Marines should be withdrawn from Nicaragua-recreate the hoteha and ballyhoo of the years just preceding the depression. Especially typical is the portrayal of the high-school football hero, whose raccoon coat, honor-badge of the period, appears as standard equipment whenever the young buck comes...
Having just completed organization of a dance committee, the Freshmen will swing into gear on their social season a trifle late for the traditional November madness. They plan a formal dance in the Union a few weekends later...