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swinging [′swiŋ·iŋ] (navigation) The process of placing a craft on various headings and comparing magnetic compass readings with the corresponding magnetic directions to determine deviation; this usually follows compass adjustment or compass compensation, and is done to obtain information for making a deviation table, deviation card, or compass correction card. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| But it's pretty hard to break from ``Contact'' without bestowing the requisite gasps and plaudits on the adventures of Michael Wiley (James Blanshard), the desperate advertising executive who, unable to take his own life, ends up at an after-hours swing club. It is McGinley who runs the North American Swing Club Association (NASCA) and the annual Lifestyles convention. Working through the final illness of her husband, the late director Mike Ockrent, she plunged with Weidman into creating a musical about a New York adman who, on the verge of suicide, launches into a life-saving fantasy about dancing with a seductive woman in yellow at a swing club. |
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