Word: swing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...petition campaign is in full swing now, and Commoner was in town this week to gather more volunteers to collect signatures. Wednesday he spoke to about 35 Harvard students at the Eliot House Junior Common Room about the problems of mounting a third party campaign, and asked them to "sacrifice some time, maybe even a bit of your GPA, to help us provide the alternative Americans want...
White House and Pentagon officials staged a major last-minute lobbying drive yesterday among swing voters on a sub-committee of the Senate Appropriations Committee, the first group to consider the measure since the House of Representatives passed it by 30 votes last week...
...Drew dramas as Carolyn Keene. At 87, the author is spry, but less timeless than her protégée. In half a century, Nancy has aged only two years, to 18, and done little more than change hair styles and add slacks and shorts to her swing-era sweater sets and pleated skirts. Despite a 50-year romance, Boyfriend Ned Nickerson is still allowed no more than a chaste kiss. That's because of another relationship equally uncharacteristic of modern times, alas. "I call her my fictional daughter," says Mrs. Adams. "And my fictional daughter always does...
...Most of what had been written about Talese in the press, however, had been jocularly presented, strongly suggesting that his reportorial technique as a 'participating observer' in the world of erotica-his patronage of massage parlors, his dark afternoons in X-rated cinemas, his intimate familiarity with swing clubs and orgiasts across the land-was an ingenious ploy on his part to indulge his carnality and to be unfaithful ... While Talese had never openly refuted this notion, assuming that any attempt to deny it might mark him as a man on the defensive ... he was nonetheless keenly aware...
...Crimson netwomen will swing into action today at the Ivy League Championships, hoping to challenge favored powers Princeton and Yale...