Word: swing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Last May, the Jazz Band's 15th Anniversary Concert was an inspired and polished success, with jazz greats like Illinois Jacquet and Lester Bowie leading the Band in front of a sell-out crowd. It's refreshing to see that the Jazz Band has not lost its momentum, its swing or its quest for improvement...
...line conservatives criticized Reagan and his aides for not anticipating the strength of the Bork opposition. They also attacked the White House's leisurely execution of its lobbying campaign for the judge. Daniel Casey, executive director of the American Conservative Union, complained that he had urged the President to swing through the South to lobby for Bork during the dog days of summer. "Instead," griped Casey, "he was sent off to Santa Barbara for 30 days to chop wood and ride horses." Iowa's Republican Senator Charles Grassley, a Reagan ally who voted for Bork on the Judiciary Committee, denounced...
Powell was one of the court's most frequent swing votes. Without him, a number of 4-to-4 ties are likely. Though the ideological splits are by no means firm, deadlocks are possible on some of the thorniest questions scheduled for argument in the coming weeks...
...months ago in Kissimmee. The Red Sox have a large crop of fine rookies: Sam.Horn (14 home runs in only 130 at bats), Mike Greenwell (87 runs batted in in 120 games), Ellis Burks(20 home runs, 26 stolen bases). With Oil Can returning, Rice rediscovering his home run swing, Schiraldi finding new life in the starting rotation and the youngsters playing a full season, excitement should return to Fenway...
President Reagan this summer nominated the conservative jurist to replace retiring Justice Louis F. Powell, who had been the Court's swing vote in many key cases. Liberal organizations are working to prevent Bork's confirmation, charging he will circumvent crucial civil rights decisions and set back the clock of progress...