Word: swing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like a father having a pillow fight with his son, letting his child swing away and not caring to provide any tallies of his own. But this wasn't a pillow fight; this was a title fight...
Congressman Jim Blanchard (D-Mich.) is a real Detroiter. "It's a disappointing season, but they're a fun team to watch. I love them, they're big bats, big hitters, they swing away. . . .I'm a true believer...
...clean with none of the characteristic academic bric-a-brac littering his desk. His one luxury in the spartan setting is a little tea kettle. He eagerly keeps track of world events, and asks most of his visitors if they think prominent South Korean dissident Kim Dae-Jung "will swing"--a euphemism which even seeps into his speech when he refers to himself. He takes phone calls with an effusive charm and unusual passion. "That was another one of my friends--calling from San Francisco. Everyone I know who can afford it is fleeing the country. I hear...
...conduct a campaign for recognition, the administration has a right to try to block the attempt. But today, with District 65 more experienced after its first unsuccessful drive to unionize the employees, the time seems ripe for a union victory. Because the initial effort was defeated by only 50 swing votes in 1977 after a three-year battle in which both sides pulled out all the stops, the vigorous campaign being conducted by District 65 should rally worker sentiment behind the union. District 65 will probably file for the right to hold an election with the National Labor Relations Board...
...many voters in the two districts, the unusual ecclesiastical intervention may swing their votes to Clark and Hatem. "When the votes are counted tomorrow night, we'll know two things: how many people will go out of their way to do what the Catholic Church says, and how many will go out of their way to do the opposite," one Clark campaigner said yesterday...