Word: swinging
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Bruce's is the quintessential cowboy bat--grubby smoky, just a little dangerous and it attracts locals from Ault and Timnath. They come booted and hatted to do the two-steps and Western Swing on the sawdust-sprinkled dance floor Bruce's also beasts the best Rocky Mountain. Oysters in the state (Those, by the way, are deep the bull testicles. Don't knock 'em--they'll put on anyone's chest...
Then, in the wake of Watergate, at about the time the press was riding highest, the pendulum started to swing back. Courts began to narrow the definition of public figures. Chief Justice Warren Burger told trial judges, in a footnote to a 1979 opinion, that too many libel cases were being summarily dismissed--that is, rejected before going to trial. For journalists, the most nettlesome result of the court's shift in mood came in a ruling during the pretrial discovery phase of a suit brought by retired Army Lieut. Colonel Anthony Herbert, a former field officer in Viet...
SIMPLY PUT, the most effective way for the United States to force reform or any change in South Africa is to threaten and carry out removal of all political, corporate, and economic support for the system. Although Harvard's divestment per se may not swing a particular corporation to withdraw from South Africa, it becomes more potent when combined with the divestiture efforts of other universities, state and Federal institutions and organizations, leading toward the goal of ending all U.S. corporate involvement with the current South African regime...
Overweight and out of shape, he enters the Pittsburgh Pirates training camp and suits up. Facing a pitching machine, he writes, "I take a practice swing. It's as if I dropped my pants in an old burlesque house--screams of laughter, hoots, catcalls." In the field, "my body already hurts so much I do not even care. I embrace my wounds. I am St. Sebastian." He also answers to another name. A boy holds out an autograph book and later shows his grandfather the fat player's signature. The old man examines it knowledgeably: "Sure, I know...
...based in Moscow, normally control the process. Says a Kremlinologist at the U.S. State Department: "There are no votes taken. They palaver until the consensus is reached." In the final hours of the decision, the military and the KGB may become more influential, as they < were in helping to swing the balance in favor of Andropov. There is no guarantee, however, that next time they will have anything like the same significance...