Word: swing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Justice Department study cleared the force of any laxity. Nevertheless, a city ordinance now prohibits firearms within 500 ft. of a parade, and more officers are regularly assigned to cover public demonstrations. "Police are going to be seen at practically every event in Greensboro," says Chief W.E. Swing. "Low visibility worked for a number of years, but Nov. 3 changed all that...
...adult?with two hands for both his forehand shot and his backhand, the same way he wielded a hockey stick. Since the only way he knew to swing a racquet was the wristy stroke of the table-tennis player, he flicked tennis balls the same way. The Borg topspin thus was born. By all that is classic in the sport, everything about Borg's strokes was wrong. But his mother remembers one thing that was right: "Even then he loved to play. Even then he hated to lose. Even in his pretend games, he always wanted...
...Girl in a Swing, Adams...
...fact, it was largely a media event staged by the Carter forces to create some hoopla for the President's first avowedly political foray of the year, a twelve-hour swing through Ohio last Thursday. Ostensibly the purpose of the trip was to win votes in the Ohio primary this Tuesday, one of nine that once looked like the exciting windup of the nomination campaign. But all the drama had gone out of that contest, since Carter, after winning primaries in Arkansas, Kentucky and Nevada last week, was by his own count only four delegates short...
...that possibility was rapidly disappearing. Said Bush two days after the Michigan vote: "Money is so hard to get when you have mournful predictions from others that it is all over." By then he had already arrived in New Jersey for what was to be a three-day campaign swing, but he canceled that, canceled all plans for California, and flew home to Houston to decide on his future course. Ex-President Gerald Ford offered a faint wisp of help, telling a press conference that Bush had done well in the industrial states where "Governor Reagan could have some difficulty...