Word: swing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nixon and Kleindienst, of course, are long since gone from office. Fitzsimmons died in May and William Presser in July. Jackie Presser, however, is very much alive and a powerful ally of another Republican President, Ronald Reagan. As "communications director," or official spokesman, of the Teamsters, Presser helped to swing the union's support to Reagan in the 1980 campaign, and was named a senior labor adviser to one of Reagan's transition teams. Some Teamsters are convinced that he is next in line for the presidency of the union. His accession might come soon if the incumbent...
Isolated in their cells, the men devise ways of passing items across corridors by stripping threads from cotton towels and attaching a button. Then they swing the button under the door until it intersects with another thread and button from across the hall. Once the link-up is made, the inmates pass small objects to each other. Another way of transferring such items as cigarettes is to tie them to the end of a towel or a trouser leg, and then swing them from one window to the next...
They are also a short, sharp insight into the temper of the times, a compressed cultural iconography. It was plain that the sexual revolution had reached the suburbs when in 1968 Ford Motor Co. sold autos with a song urging: "It's the way to swing/ Go and have your fling." McDonald's spoke to the '60s-weary Silent Majority in 1971 with words that had little to do with fast food but that probably summed up why people supported the Viet Nam War: "Let's start buildin' our world/ Let's stop puttin...
...Kansas City Monarchs, was telling how Luis Tiant Sr., who pitched for the Cuban Stars with the same herky-jerky motion that his son made famous in the majors, once got a third strike without throwing a pitch. Fooled by Tiant's delivery, the batter took a mighty swing -only to discover that the crafty mounds-man had thrown to first base in a pick-off attempt...
Three bicyclists zip around the stage of off-Broadway's Orpheum Theater in a play that concerns the nimble revolutions of the heart. Philip (Ben Masters) and Lisa (Brooke Adams) are lovers. As free spirits in the modern kingdom of swing, they do not live together. But Lisa would like to be much less free. When she proposes an exchange of apartment keys, the specter of impending matrimonial claustrophobia chills Philip. Michael (Mark Blum), a chance friend, has a reverse problem. His unseen bride of less than a month has deserted him for a fling with her music teacher...