Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five-nation swing, Shultz sees more realism and hears less rhetoric...
...outnumbered the candidates and their traveling staffs. News personnel aboard the bus (or plane or van) can enjoy intimacy with a potential President: John Glenn, for example, has led a group sing-along of gospel and folk tunes, and shakes hands with the regulars at the end of a swing. But at every stop, the journalists are faced with a candidate's standard speech, the same jokes, the same badinage, and must try to turn them into news. As ABC Correspondent Brit Hume joshed to Mondale's press secretary Maxine Isaacs after a blur of indistinguishable events...
...clergy and lay leaders, "I need your help, your endorsement, voter registrations, money and concern." He left the meeting with $25,000 in cash and commitments from prominent pastors to raise $5,000 to $15,000 apiece. Two days later he went on a three-day swing through Florida and collected thousands of dollars more from congregations...
...Levi- and tee shirt-clad group of young men on the stage is evidently rehearsing for a play: they say their lines and listen as the director shouts advice. But there is something odd about this wholesome-looking bunch: they speak in high falsettos, some swing their hips a la Marilyn Monroe, one wears a luxuriant wig of long, flowing curls...
...breakdown in discipline that caused chaos in the nation's classrooms in the 1960s and 1970s. According to Scott Thomson, executive director of the National Association of Secondary School Principals, discipline problems are "nowhere near as bad as they were five years ago - there has been an important swing in student and parent attitudes...