Word: swing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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University Health Services (UHS) doctors said yesterday the annual fall outbreak of the common cold is in full swing, but added they had no idea of the extent of the problem...
...year-old writer chatted with all who patiently waited in the long, winding line at the store as he started off a threeday swing of appearances in the Boston area, the last stop in a brief Eastern publicity tour to promote his fifth book...
...does not write about Cortés and Montezuma in every story; in fact, he is not writing about them in the sketch quoted above. There is in fact no subject matter to his pieces. Characters and situations are used the way a hypnotist employs a pocket watch swinging at the end of a chain. It is the hypnosis that is important, not the swing of the watch. A short piece called The Party begins, "I went to a party and corrected a pronunciation. The man whose voice I had adjusted fell back into the kitchen. I praised a Bonnard...
Harvard's dining hall employees compose one of the largest chunks of Local 26's membership. Although the union also represents hotel, restaurant and bartending workers throughout Boston and at MIT, campaigners recognized that the Harvard unit furnished the swing votes on which the union election hinged. In 1978, the University's kitchen employees propelled Joseph Sullivan into the Local 26 presidency by granting him nearly 85 per cent of the Harvard vote...
...sail for Seattle. But for Kardonsky, the most experienced skipper in the fleet, a more savage task remains. The Cavalier has to tow one last load of equipment to Prudhoe Bay. The tug will return to Wainwright, hook up with a bargeload of pipes from Japan and once more swing east. Feeling the menacing bite of the chill September air, the crew will be praying harder than usual that the Arctic not mistake Kardonsky's nerve for defiance. -By Michael Moritz