Word: swing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...once seethed behind the desk as a gaggle of reporters standing around his Yankee Stadium office looked at one another strangely. "I know how I'd do it too. I'd say something, he'd say something. I'd say something, he'd say something. He'd take a swing. There you are. Self-defense...
...handful of interviews. Yet his life and those of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, two fellow British double agents whom he helped escape in 1951, inspired countless plays, films, novels and biographies. In spy fiction if not reality, Philby's perfidy seems to have been pivotal in a mood swing from patriotic derring-do to dour pessimism...
...biggest producers declined to participate (among them Britain, the Soviet Union and the U.S.), the meeting was a somewhat threatening development for oil-gulping countries. That includes the U.S. as a whole, which imports 37% of its daily consumption. Energy Secretary John Herrington, on a seven-nation swing through Southeast Asia, was inspired to lecture non-OPEC countries that the Reagan Administration was opposed to any manipulation of the price of oil. He told TIME, "The efforts to establish a worldwide cartel will end in failure...
...swinging sounds of Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller were banned in Nazi Germany as Allied decadence, but Hitler's henchmen were less punctilious when it came to propaganda. West German Jazz Historian Rainer Lotz this week releases his second album titled German Propaganda Jazz. The music was recorded in the 1940s by Charlie and His Orchestra, a 14-member swing band organized by Joseph Goebbels' Ministry of Propaganda to spread the Nazi message via radio to Allied citizens and occupied Europe...
...interview, Bok said that he views thepoverty initiative as an avenue for Harvard tobegin addressing issues which may later beaddressed by the government policymakers. "At somepoint in the future the pendulum will swing backin the direction of trying to do something aboutpoverty." Bok said. "The question is how strong anintellectual base are we going to have at thatpoint...