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Word: swing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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After all, here he was, The Champ, playing in the finals of the Boston Open against the Harvard kid, Desaulniers, heir apparent to his squash throne, no less, and some referee was going to deny him his right to swing a racquet...

Author: By John Rippey, | Title: Showy Sharif Khan Tops Desaulniers | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

...concert is true. Richards, not Jagger, runs the show, beginning songs when he's damn well ready and when he's found someone to light his cigarette. Bill Wyman does not move and may not even have been breathing. And as Keef himself says, "White drummers don't swing, except for Charlie Watts...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Stoned in Hartford | 11/12/1981 | See Source »

...months ago, city liberals were hopeful about the elections held this week. They might, they thought, wind up in firm control of the city government, no longer dependent on the swing vote of Alfred E. Vellucci for the maintenance of programs like rent control...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: A Precarious Balance | 11/7/1981 | See Source »

...preliminary tally of all number-one votes under the city's complicated proportional representation system showed that the council will almost certainly continue to contain four conservatives, four liberals, and Alfred E. Vellucci as the swing vote...

Author: By Andrew C. Karp and William E. Mckibben, S | Title: Council Balance Unchanged; W. Sullivan Wins Most Votes | 11/5/1981 | See Source »

When it comes to ways of fattening their bankrolls, the new fitness entrepreneurs have left few shoelaces untied. In a cinder-block building in Van Nuys, Calif., infants get put through exercise routines: 16-month-olds pretend to look like pretzels, swing from rings and run a kiddie obstacle course of bars and tunnels that looks like a miniature golf course, while older children learn what Junior Gym Founder Judy Braun calls "directionality" and have "rhythmic experiences." Eight lessons cost $55. The gym, begun in 1973, had revenues last year of $250,000 and profits before taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Shapes Up: One, two, ugh, groan, splash: get lean, get taut, think gorgeous | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

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