Word: swing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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University officials strongly fear the consequences of recognizing District 65, provided the NLRB again calls for an election and the union can turn the 45 swing votes from 1977 in its favor. Administrators privately express doubts about the union's credibility, despite its new affiliation with...
Weary of fighting the courts on the prayer issue, some members of Congress have come up with a solution: bypass them. The Senate has passed a bill that would deprive the federal bench of the power to decide certain "voluntary" school-prayer cases, and backers hope that the rightward swing signaled by the Reagan victory will persuade the reluctant House to give the measure its blessing too. The latest Gallup poll indicates that 76% of Americans are willing to go even further and approve a constitutional amendment allowing school prayers...
Orlando Patterson, professor of Sociology, said the verdict signifies a conservative swing across the nation. "With Reagan's election, the new 'moral majority,' the rise in racial incidents, and particularly the rise of the Klan, we seem to be entering a new dark age," he said adding that "We are living through a revival of atavistic racism--it's all very depressing...
Court suits and prisoners' rights legislation may be less likely to pass in the apparent swing towards conservatism, he added...
...with "the wild-hawk look foreigners associated with Americans." He had great enthusiasm for Free Thinkers, the militant feminism of Margaret Fuller and George Sand, and such fads of his day as magnetism, sexology and phrenology. According to the bumps on his own head, Whitman had "a certain reckless swing of animal will, too unmindful, probably, of the conviction of others...