Word: swing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suspect the former will happen, although the latter is a distinct possibility. Harvard doesn't make too many errors. The attack is too sure and diversified. And Yoviesin, no doubt, has a few tricks up his sleeve, like the Strandemo swing passes he used last week...
First the left foot, scraping the dirt near the back of the box, establishing this dominion. Then, settling the helmet with the right hand. Finally the foot, closer to the plate, more mobile than the anchoring left foot. One easy practice swing--just one and then the body tightened. Bat drawn up and back with terrifying geometrical precision, lines and angles of force created by arms, elbows and wood. No nervous practice swings, just a slow waving of the bat. The pitch--and the explosion of energy, cracking the ball down the right field line...
Rounding out the defense are junior John Emery, swing man at linebacker last year and probably the best tackler on the squad, and cornerback John Ignacio, another junior...
...defensive line there are three new men. Bill Timpson at end played magnificently at the finish of the season last year as swing man. He is a good, strong rusher, who often dumps quarterbacks for big losses. Timpson seems to be an able replacement for last year's captain Justin Hughes. In fact, he might have been last year...
...every stop in Boston and Cambridge today, Romney's theme will be the problems of the cities, a spokesman for the governor said yesterday. On his last swing through Cambridge, when he spent three days as an honorary associate of the Institute of Politics, the Michigan governor was questioned on Vietnam, but he refused at that time to be specific in any public statements...