Word: swing
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...higher education, for the moral justification of diversity lacks the popularity it once held, but this rationale is still important. Colleges and universities are gateways to elite society. Education is the key that grants one access to privilege, to standing, to power. Universities therefore have a moral obligation to swing wide their doors and extend to those who have historically been missing from this elite an opportunity to change this situation...
...greatest centerfielder in baseball history Joe DiMaggio or Willie Mays? Who would you put on your at-time team--the quiet grace and smooth swing of Joltin' Joe, or the speed, style and charisma...
Through annual events like drag night, the spring waltz and the winter swing, Adams House Committee has tried to maintain its traditional character...
...portly man wearing no shirt interrupts the dialogue as he nears. Behind the bench, he picks through a trashcan with his wooden cane. He swats at the trash using the cane, knocking pieces along the ground with his one-handed golf swing...
Another assumption is that the economy will grow steadily, continually pushing up tax revenues. Should there be one or more recessions instead, Reischauer thinks, the budget over the next 10 years or so would swing back and forth between "little surpluses" and offsetting "little deficits." Even that would mark the achievement, albeit more than 35 years late, of a goal once proclaimed by John F. Kennedy: a balanced budget over the business cycle...