Word: swing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SALT'S fate is going to depend on the Senate's remaining 20 or so members, who are genuinely undecided. Perhaps the two most important members of this swing group are the Senate's top party officials. Majority Leader Robert Byrd has carefully avoided committing himself. Said he: "I'll sit down and go over the treaty line by line and word by word." Active opposition by Byrd would probably doom the pact. Not so undecided is Minority Leader Howard Baker, whose backing last year was invaluable in the White House's successful drive...
LONDON--Secretary of State Cyrus Vance flew into London yesterday for the first formal U.S. talks with Britain's new Conservative government and the start of a two-week swing through Europe and the Middle East...
...language which accepts and draws on both the multitude of musical experiences that have shaped the styles of its individual players and the roots of jazz itself. One thinks of avantgarde jazz in terms of raw rhythmic energy and screeching atonalism, but the Art Ensemble's musical vocabulary evokes swing, calypso, bebop circus music, rhythm'n blues and a host of other influences side-by-side with the visionary innovations of a Coltrane or an Ayler. It's not simply a case of an eclectic repertoire; these diverse styles emerge organically from the Art Ensemble's musical conception...
...once a leader, now a follower. At six seat in the engine room of the boat, Strong has to respond to the new heavies' stroke, Therese Munoz. "The main thing I'm learning now is to pick up Therese's rhythm. I really like her swing. The boat has responded very well. She has a very good sense of rhythm, and I think it's a good change...
Zito, a squat, roly-poly fellow with a wristy swing, made up for his lack of length with an exquisite short game. On the 202-yd. par three 16th, Zito was 30 yards short of the green with a two-iron while Henley and Alexander both reached with four-irons. But Zito's chip hit the pin and lodged three inches from...