Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slave quarters to see; the last were torn down in the 1930s. But the pale yellow plantation house still stands, with its green shutters, 14 rooms and veranda and upstairs gallery extending the width of the 53-ft. front. Elsie Reeves Baum, 71, of Creswell, expects the day to swing from sad to happy as she and others walk among the ghosts of their forebears and the splendid cypress trees they planted. Says she: "They sang the same spirituals we sing. 'Steal Away to Jesus!' And 'All o' God's Chillun Got Shoes' . . . For us to walk on the soil...
...then headed off to Iowa, where the first real presidential caucus will be held almost 18 months from now. In the long run Jackson is likely to wield more clout. One reason: he can make a credible threat of mounting a disruptive third-party candidacy should he fail to swing the Democrats to the left. Robertson, 56, insists, "I work at coalitions. I wouldn't dream of doing anything to hurt the Republican Party...
Having insisted on making a bravura entrance into the South African debate, * Reagan seemed anxious to tiptoe away from it all during his swing through the South last week. For the most part, he deflected or ignored questions hurled at him whenever he was in earshot of reporters. When given the chance, he seemed to set the stage for a shift in policy in the wake of the reaction he had provoked. When a reporter shouted a query in Columbia, S.C., about whether new sanctions were out of the question, the President stopped to answer. "We haven't closed...
...answer lies on red clay courts far from Wimbledon or Flushing, where on summer mornings teenagers meet to work on their strokes and serves. They dress in fashionable warm-up outfits or immaculate whites adorned with well-known logos and swing imported Volkl, Kneissel or Belgian "Snauwaert" carbon racquets. Hovering nearby, track-suited trainers murmur advice. The days are a regimen of practice matches, endurance training and chalkboard strategy sessions, followed by evening shape-ups with sports psychologists...
...late 1970s, however, all the varied roads to socialism were converging on dead ends. "Most governments were seeking to reduce the public, and expand the market, sectors of their economies," writes Historian Paul Johnson in his chronicle, Modern Times. The retreat was foretold by a swing in intellectual fashion. It began with the 1970 publication of Jean-Francois Revel's Without Marx or Jesus, which praised U.S. society as open and pragmatic and rejected socialism as a dogma that had failed...