Word: swingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have ever seen." His one fault is at the plate-a lightweight lifetime batting average of .226. enough to make a Yankee wince. But this spring the Yankees took him firmly in hand, changed his stance and taught him to harness his wild, one-for-the-moon swing. Last week Boyer was batting .368-tops on the team; he had hit five homers (including his first grand slam), driven in twelve runs. Manager Ralph Houk moved him up six notches in the line-up (to second), and even Yogi Berra was impressed. "When you see anybody hit two homers into...
...windows and emplacing bazooka teams in the flower beds outside. Rauch called up his tanks, and the two sides rumbled ominously. After 24 tense hours, an uneasy truce was made. Both generals resigned their posts; then the Argentine navy sided with Poggi's hard-line faction to swing the balance of power. There could be little question who had won: Poggi, the hardliner...
...language. This is particularly easy when a conversation is dull and repetitious. In the same way, if the listener is bored with the person to whom he is speaking, he may let his other ear range round other conversations in the room, waiting for an opportune moment to swing around and join another conversation...
...warmed up, Brown took off on a daylong, 500-mile swing through the heavily Democratic coast and valley country north of California's Tehachapi Mountains. At San Luis Obispo, he was confronted by 600 angry California State Polytechnic College students, demonstrating in protest against a state-levied, $9-per-quarter parking fee for students with cars. Speaking without a microphone, Brown raised his voice to drown out the hecklers, eased the tension with a quip: "Now I know how Nixon felt in Caracas. This is my first crisis, but I'm not going to write a book about...
...early persecuted days of the church, cardinals-according to one theory of how the title originated-were men who aided the Pope by knowing their way around the bureaucracy of the Roman Empire. Because of their ability to swing between affairs of church and state, they became known as "hinge" men (the Latin word for hinge is car do}. Later the title was applied to the bishops of Rome's seven suburban dioceses, the priests in charge of the city's ancient parishes, and the deacons who handled church administration. This symbolic ranking of cardinal-bishops, cardinal...