Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that political control now rests in delicate balance between the progressive Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) and the more conservative, neighborhood-oriented Independents. Each bloc holds four seats, with Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci--the self-proclaimed "small i" independent and champion of the city's poor and elderly--as the swing vote...
They also don't seem to mind reliving events that couldn't have been much fun in undergraduate days. A crowded, brightly-lit dance in Memorial Hall Sunday night featured a third-rate swing band and bore a resemblance to an awkward freshman mixer. But for these post-freshmen, having to line up, steer-like, in black tie and gowns to board yellow school buses to take them to the Park Plaza was probably made less noxious by the sign in one of the bus windows: "Very Important People...
With less than two weeks to go before polling on June 9, the election campaign is in full swing. The latest surveys suggest that it may already be all but over, bar the voting and the shouting. Last week, a poll by Market and Opinion Research International showed the Tories with a commanding lead of 51 %, well ahead of Labor (29%) and the Alliance...
...jokes in four minutes has slowed, the style endures. Hope is still the All-American wisecracker. His only living peer among comedians, George Burns, 87, found himself a new guise: the worldly-wise old geezer. Hope does not change: he leads with his chin and the little golf swing he taught Johnny Carson and lives off his one-liners...
...warms to the attention. For on the course the visitor is reminded that this is Hope's game; all other players, ex-Presidents and Las Vegas headliners included, are simply along for the ride. Although he now shoots in the high 80s, Hope still has the picture-book swing he had when he was a four-handicap player. "You know what I'd really like to do this year?" he says, for a brief moment thoughtful. "I'd like to get my golf game back. I'd be really happy if I could break 80 again...