Word: swing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...large, antiquated fleet of fighter-bombers would be no match for Viet Nam's Soviet-supplied MiG-21 interceptors. In the past 18 months Hanoi has received 150 MiG-21s from Moscow. In addition, the Vietnamese air force has acquired a number of Soviet SU-22s-modern swing-wing fighters...
...Secretary Goldschmidt. Carter's first Transportation Secretary, Brock Adams, sternly ordered Detroit to "reinvent" the automobile, and last April the President publicly berated industry leaders for stubbornly refusing to make small cars. But Goldschmidt, the former mayor of Portland, Ore., took the automakers' problems seriously and helped swing Administration opinion round. Prompted by the Government's loan guarantee to Chrysler, Goldschmidt embarked on a long-term study that convinced him the Government simply must help an industry that provides one-sixth of the nation's jobs. A Goldschmidt-led task force designed the proposals that Carter...
...from Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington last week. Jimmy Carter was physically exhausted from the rigors of his eight-day, 10,500-mile tour of Europe, and he was headed for a long weekend of rest at Camp David to prepare for a campaign swing through California this week. But just as clearly, he was also elated. The President was home from his ninth and probably his most successful summit with U.S. allies. The two days of talks in Venice had gone far better than he or anyone else had expected. Instead of the anticipated...
What makes Borg so good? Top-spin is one element. He often starts his forehand swing with the strings virtually parallel to the ground, turns the face of the racquet until it is perpendicular at the instant of impact, then twists it to the horizontal again. Thus he is whipping his hand from palm up on the backswing to palm down on the follow-through...
That brushing motion puts tremendous spin on the ball, generating air pockets below it that pull the ball down like a lead weight, no matter how hard it is hit. Thus Borg can swing away and know that it will drop within the base line. Equally important, he can hit the ball high over the net and still pin his opponent deep in the court. With classic, flat tennis strokes?the kind hit by such stars as Connors and McEnroe?the margin for error is reduced to an area some 6 in. over the net: hit the ball lower...