Word: swingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy's swing is smooth; his stance is good, his grip is proper and his backswing is slow. He normally gets between 225 and 250 yds. on his drives, but he is troubled by a hook. He is often sharp with his short irons (on a recent Palm Beach outing he unnerved his companions by dropping an approach shot for a birdie 3 on the first hole), and his putting is excellent. He is weakest with his long irons. Says Crosby: "He tops the ball. There's a term we have for that-menacing the field mice...
...second term - unless some thing very bad happens. Unless Kennedy stubs his toe, I would say that history would be against us." No such thing, said California's Richard Nixon, emerging from meetings with lo cal Republicans to announce that he will start a national politicking swing about May I to discuss the errors of the "first 100 days of the Kennedy Administration" By then, he observed, Kennedy's "political honeymoon" should be about over. Referring to his own defeat last year, he predicted: "Out of this defeat will come the greatest victory the Republican Party has ever...
...shape of the bat has changed because everyone swings for the fences. Used to be bats had thick handles and a big barrel. Then they found out it's not the size of the bat that gets home runs-it's the speed with which you swing it. So now everyone uses a bat with a thin handle and a long taper, so that most of the wood's in the end. You can whip this one around and get power in your swing...
...this bat. It comes in like a fast ball and breaks a few inches in toward the hands of the batter. That means it breaks in where there is no wood in the bat. Just the thin handle. It breaks so late you can't adjust your swing for it. Used to be all you had to worry about was the fast ball, the curve and the change-up. Add the slider and right there the batter's problem is 25% harder...
...will find.'' To produce the intricately jeweled Eye of Silence, Ernst placed two wet painted canvases together, pulled them apart, let his fancy take over. At one time Ernst even experimented with a technique he called "oscillation.'' He pierced cans of paint and let them swing gently over the canvas. "Surprising lines drip upon the canvas, and the play of association then begins," he says. "Jackson Pollock made quite a nice adventure of this.'' The Loplop Spirit. Tricky as these techniques sound, they never intrude upon the painting; what might have been mere sleight...