Word: swing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Byrne and the band are still looking for laughter and surprise, but the tune is different. Nowadays it has a larky uptempo swing that sounds like a roadhouse Saturday night and goes like this...
...Baylor homered with a man on to make it interesting, and Henderson did the same with two outs and two strikes to make it excruciating. "We're ballplayers," replied Henderson when asked how with one swing left in the season he managed to block out a mortal fear of failure. "We fail most of the time." Though the Angels tied the game in the bottom of the ninth and still had the bases loaded with only one out, Third Baseman Doug DeCinces and then Grich faltered in the clutch. After a couple of innings of outfielders' banging walls like cymbals...
...press pass seemed to be a free ticket to all areas of the park--from the bleachers to the batting circle. I watched batting practice from the field, on eye level with a Jim Rice swing that sent the ball into the screen above the Wall...
White House strategists then switched to a familiar ploy. Meeting with eight Republican Senators who were considered swing votes, Secretary of State George Shultz argued strongly that a congressional override of the sanctions veto would undercut Reagan's credibility at this weekend's meeting with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Iceland. "To the best of my knowledge, South Africa has never been on the agenda for a summit," commented Lugar. "I think this will be seen as farfetched...
...perfect golf swing," I was told, "is like true love. You search forever and hardly ever find it. But when you do--look out, Momma...