Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...innings later, Gonyar stoned, and the Crimson was awestruck. The backup left fielder hadn't even been on the Black Bear varsity much of the year, but his leadoff drive over the fence in the 12th was undoubtedly the single biggest swing in Maine's year. And it destroyed Harvard...
...further security Soviet Olympic officials and coaches would have slept on a ship anchored off Long Beach. The first major assignment of the Pentagon's newly organized hostage rescue team, now training at Quantico, Va., will be to station itself in Orange County during the Olympics, ready to swing into action alongside the Los Angeles Police Department's crack SWAT (special weapons and tactics) team if terrorists try anything at the Games...
...anything more." Well, there is one thing: "I would like to have been able to do very good golf. I love the game." The hoofer-duffer may not be the pro on the fairway that he wants to be, but it is inconceivable that his swing could be anything but smooth...
...arranger and conductor whose shimmering, swirling string backgrounds enhanced the performances, on records and TV, of such stars as Judy Garland, Peggy Lee and Frank Sinatra; of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease); in Malibu, Calif. Pianist Jenkins started composing and arranging with the Swing Era's big bands, wrote Benny Goodman's closing theme, Goodbye, and won a Grammy Award for his stylish 1965 arrangement of Sinatra's It Was a Very Good Year...
...left, keeping the whole thing together. "I'm only part of the rhythm section," William (''Count") Basie would say. "I'm a pacesetter." When he died last week of pancreatic cancer at 79, the man from Red Bank, N.J., Kansas City, Mo., and the swing clubs of New York had indeed set the pace for one of the century's most accomplished jazz bands...