Word: swing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...continuing argument over the death penalty does not alter the fact that at this moment Americans are predisposed to "fry" felons. A decade ago we were not. The pendulum of revenge will continue to swing...
After a year of industrious planning and research and two more years infiltrating the country with more than 90 "kickoff" dinners in 81 cities, members of the executive committee of the Harvard Campaign say the fundraising drive is now in full swing...
...film opens with scenes of the rebellion of 1956 that are shot in black and white with incongruous swing music playing in the background. In a smoking crater, the father of Dini Koves (Istan Znamenak), the movie's hero, is burying something. The white lightning through the smoke is actually quite impressive. During the following scene, Papa tears himself away from his family to flee back to the United States. All the participants in this emotionally charged situation, however, seem emotionally uninvolved. Papa moves as if someone offstage is yelling directions at him: Over here, no, over there...
...change-up, throw a fair knuckleball, and move the ball around pretty good." Not everyone had such steely resolve. Denny Albano, 42, a Chicago commodities trader who was varsity catcher at Bradley University in Peoria, Ill., trained mostly on four vodkas a day. When he essayed his first indoor swing in 20 years, he shattered the kitchen chandelier...
...little different style," Burke says. "It's more of a pro-style." But he adds that it took only a few practices to get back in the swing of the college game...