Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brown player had previously been thrown out for taking a swing at Graham, and following a Bruin goal, the Crimson goalie retaliated rather blatantly, kicking a Brown swimmer in the throat...
...step process, and not a leap," says University of Chicago Law School Professor Philip Kurland. Agrees A.E. Dick Howard, a professor of law at the University of Virginia: "The 1984 Burger Court may be the conservative counterpart of the 1962 Warren Court-the year it turned the corner. A swing to the right has been in the works for a decade, but the momentum has quickened in the most recent term." Even several of the Brethren acknowledge the shift. Last month Justice Harry Blackmun told a private gathering at the Cosmos Club in Washington, B.C., that...
...more than ten years, has now served twelve. Shy and gentlemanly, a former partner in an old-line Richmond law firm, he is personally conservative but not an ideologue. He has tried to be a careful and fair balancer of competing concerns. It was Powell who wrote the swing opinion striking down quotas but upholding affirmative action in the Bakke decision...
...switch in time saved nine." Quite possibly influenced by F.D.R.'s election mandate, Justice Owen Roberts changed sides and cast the swing vote to uphold important New Deal acts, including the National Labor Relations Act and a bill establishing Social Security old-age benefits. Another Justice, Willis Van Devanter, one of the conservative "Four Horsemen" who had been most ; resolutely opposed to F.D.R.'s pro" gram, announced his retirement. The New Deal was saved. The court-packing plan died in Congress...
...rewarded American women immediately. Defense plants provided them with their first paychecks and a chance to get out of the house. Rosie the Riveter became an overnight symbol of competence and independence, though not all women finished work looking like Goldie Hawn in Swing Shift. Peggy Terry, who loaded shells at a plant in Viola, Ky., recalls that the tetryl in explosives turned skin, hair and eyeballs orange: "The only thing we worried about," she says, "was other women thinking we had dyed our hair." Evelyn Fraser, a former WAC captain in Europe, had more somber preoccupations: "The shocking thing...