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Word: swing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson, in the fourth outing of a five-games-in-eight-days road swing, scored three goals in the first period and dominated play the rest of the way to knock off the Bulldogs (6-9-1, 6-8-1 WCHA...

Author: By Nick Wurf, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Freeze Bulldogs, 4-1; Up Record to 10-0 on Season | 12/13/1986 | See Source »

...place to get fights. They would put me on last of all, and the people would be screaming when I came in." In 1982 he knocked a Nigerian named Alimi Mustafa dead as Hector. "I cry now whenever I think of that wee man, and sometimes when I swing on someone, there he is in front of me. His wife was pregnant, as mine was. Well he never knew it, but he had a son. I don't know why I fight. It's a fire in my gut. But I'll tell you something." His tone grew hushed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Of Murderous Intentions | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

Prices could swing up or down before the contract is settled on its expiration date, but because of the original gap in prices, the trader has already locked in a profit, often called synthetic cash. If stock prices rise, the arbitrager will make a handsome return upon selling the shares; the money lost on the futures side of the transaction will not be enough to offset the profit because the price at which the futures were sold was overly high to start with. In the opposite scenario, falling stock prices will cause the trader to lose money on the stocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strap on Your Seat Belts! | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

Vacuous and innocent, she lacks the flirtatious savvy of the brassy Lol, who trots about with a swing in her hips, pink lipstick on her lips, and who, at her young age, really knows how to lick a lollypop...

Author: By Jane Avrich, | Title: `Fire of My Loins'--With a Douse of Water | 11/6/1986 | See Source »

...just not quite enough. Darling could test his dream one final time against Dennis ("Oil Can") Boyd. Dave Henderson and Lenny Dykstra, Boston's and New York's respective symbols of play-off miracles, kept it up through six games, until Hurst began sending Dykstra back to earth swinging and stamping his feet. Several centuries ago, the Sox were down to Henderson's last swing in California, and in the sixth game the Mets' turnaround wasted his tenth-inning homer that might have won. "I'm not going to stop and think about it," he had said. "I'm going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Small Delights and a Big Chill | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

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