Word: swingeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wilbur J. Bender '27, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aids, will speak in Kansas City. Daniel S. Cheever '39, Director of Alumni Affairs, will swing through the Southwest, addressing Harvard audiences in San Diego, Denver and Phoenix...
Working from a mound that is only 46 ft. from the plate, softball pitchers boast much the same repertory as their big-league counterparts. Even though they are limited to an underhand delivery, their curves and fastballs blaze in so fast that the best batters have no time to swing from their heels. And there is always the change-up to help give the pitcher the upper hand. Most important of all, the underhanded softball delivery permits a wicked pitch that no hardball batter ever has to face: the rise ball. Sailing up from a few inches off the dirt...
...letter bemoaning "impending Republican Party suicide," suggesting that Bill Knowland remove himself as a gubernatorial possibility. Knowland "cannot possibly muster the broad popular support which is necessary to win the governorship," the letter said, and if he insists on a knockdown, drag-out primary with Knight, "the resultant Democratic swing well might take not only the governorship but the other major constitutional posts, the U.S. Senatorship, the majority of the Congressional delegation and the Legislature...
...then, on to the Venetian blinds! You can't. When the curtain goes up, Figaro is measuring and planning and Susanna is trying on a hat. Their music is for rearranging your furniture in different positions . . . And you don't have much time because soon Figaro will swing into Se vuol ballare, one of the best woodwork-washing pieces ever composed . . . How would I like an opera to open? With Venetian blinds-that is, music which requires delicacy and reaching-obviously a coloratura aria. Caro nome, for example, would be excellent . . . Wagner, during the Ring cycle, wants...
...much for a man who does most of his weekday walking around a dentist's chair. Slowly, Bud faltered. His drives shortened; his irons were lazy and weak. Said he sadly: "I got so tired, I was playing with a 'So what?' swing...