Word: swing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think they're tired of paid government witnesses who lie," Gotti's attorney, Bruce Cutler, said after the verdict. "I think it's a swing in the right direction...
...summoning his tremendous skills as an orator, Reagan once again managed to swing events his way, however temporarily. The address won bipartisan plaudits on Capitol Hill and favorable coverage in the press. Overnight polls showed the President's approval rating, which had sagged to a four-year low, rising by as much as 9 points. At the White House, the mood changed from tragic to triumphant. "There's a big difference over there," said Nancy Reynolds, a close friend of the Reagans'. "You can hear it in people's voices. You can smell...
...Pentecostalist who ranks as one of the top TV evangelists in the U.S. In recent years Swaggart has built a surprisingly large and significant following abroad, especially in Latin America. In January he packed the 80,000-seat National Stadium in Santiago, Chile. Last week he wound up a swing through the Central American nations of El Salvador and Costa Rica, and later this year will visit Brazil, Uruguay, Panama and Honduras...
...plot, such as it is, is utterly inconsequential, only an excuse to string 25 songs together in some kind of context. We swing through the Club High-Life to the Club Au-Revoir by way of "A Chic Club in Paris," all of which are represented by a few tables and chairs set up in front of the lacquered stage of the Next Move Theater. We have the again chantuese "who during the Eisenhower Administration never once saw daylight," the young star, the happy go lucky group of kids who are down on their luck but gotta lot of heart...
...that she would one day own a house, let alone on Junius Street in Brooklyn's notorious Brownsville district, she would have laughed. The average price for decent housing in adjoining neighborhoods is $80,000, far above what her husband Melvin, a package loader with United Parcel Service, could swing on a salary of just under $30,000. Moreover, Junius Street was a wasteland of vandalized buildings and rubble-strewn vacant lots, not even a place "that I wanted my car to break down in," says Jones, 48. Yet in August 1984 the Joneses and their two children moved from...