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