Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were alternatives like foster care. Meanwhile, at least one spectator at the | court proceedings was sufficiently angered by the dropping of charges to take direct action. When the stepfather left the courthouse, he was confronted by Amy's natural father, who, in front of TV cameras, took a swing...
...ways: Syrian television and newspapers carried the full text of Reagan's note to Assad, while the U.S. President expressed a willingness to meet with the Syrian leader. Donald Rumsfeld, Reagan's special envoy to the Middle East, is now expected to see Assad on his current swing through the region...
...Soviet relationship is today quite normal, and this is all to the good. Unlike the past, when American public opinion tended to swing from euphoria about détente to hysteria about the cold war, the public correctly perceives Soviet-American relations as basically antagonistic and competitive, though linked by a common interest in survival...
...strictly forbidden, but I can tell you how it was done. Stand facing either the east or west gate (the method worked for both). Place your left foot between the wrought-iron bars directly over the lock, pull yourself up by holding the topmost spikes firmly with both hands, swing your right foot into one of the iron rings at the top of the gate, bring your left leg up and around, and you're home. That's all there was to it, in terms of the how. As for the why, I am not sure...
While Young's copilot, Air Force Major Brewster Shaw, took charge, one of three inertial measuring units, which sense any changes in the spacecraft's speed or direction, mysteriously broke down. In addition, the laws of celestial mechanics added a political problem. Each extra swing around the earth changed Columbia's path. As a result, when the ship swooped out of its last orbit, instead of coming in south of Australia and over the western Pacific, it passed only 80 miles above eastern Siberia in the militarily sensitive area of the Sakhalin Peninsula where Soviet aircraft shot...