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Word: swing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Benny Goodman's "Time on My Hands" was playing, men and women were twirling around to swing tunes, and the chandeliers were hung in the fashion of many a fancy dance hall...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Swinging Into Action | 4/24/1987 | See Source »

...Romero opened the Boston sixth with a single. Jim Rice was hit by a pitch with one out, and Don Baylor got a check-swing single to right, filling the bases...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Dewey Slams Texas, 5-4 | 4/16/1987 | See Source »

...didn't swing the bat too well until the last few innings," Wentzell said...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Batswomen Fry Providence in Twin-Bill | 4/15/1987 | See Source »

Harvard was fresh off a Florida road swing and a six-inning stint against Red Sox ace Roger Clemens, but was unable to turn up the heat against the Terriers and dropped its first game of the season...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Batsmen Bounced; Terriers Open, 5-3 | 4/10/1987 | See Source »

...year cycles based on generations. Just as the 1980s were a re- enactment of the 1950s, the Eisenhower time was a re-enactment of the Harding- Coolidge time of the 1920s. So at 30-year intervals -- Theodore Roosevelt in 1901, F.D.R. in '33, Kennedy in '61 -- we have a swing from private interest, from self-interest, to public purpose." By Schlesinger's calculation, the cyclical change now beginning should reach full momentum around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Reagan Administration... A Change in the Weather | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

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