Word: swingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Three Ms. Last week Thailand's rural revolution was in full swing. Even as the first monsoons turned the dusty red roads of the northeast into glutinous scars, hundreds of Mobile Development Unit personnel were crisscrossing the area in Jeeps, junks and oxcarts, spreading Western technology and anti-Communist temerity like spring rice. The propaganda was even fun. Through the northeast's villages rumbled government-sponsored Mobile Information Teams, carrying everything but a merry-go-round. While some teammates distributed schoolbooks, pencils and pictures of King Bhumibol, others tended a queue of sick peasants. Over all blared...
...Showers. The garter on the Sox, of course, is Lopez. A shrewd tactician who believes in "percentage baseball," he calls practically every move his players make. One of his pet theories holds that batters tend to swing harder when they are ahead of the balls-and-strikes count, easier when they are behind. So he is constantly realigning the White Sox defense. "He moved me on every pitch for a whole season," one of Lopez's third basemen once reported...
...swing that decision, Corn said that he paid $7,500 apiece to Justice Johnson and former Justice Earl Welch, 73, and later paid them another $2,500 apiece in an oil-lease case. Welch recently resigned, thus escaping impeachment. Johnson denied the charges, and when he was tried by Oklahoma's state senators, during one day's testimony, he repeated 56 times: "I don't recall." Johnson cannot appeal his removal from office. He and Welch also face probable criminal charges for bribery...
...trying to destroy the rebels with whom McGeorge Bundy is negotiating in order to make itself de facto master of the republic. The rebels, on the other hand, are more prepared than ever to fight hard. They believe that if only they last a while longer the Americans will swing to their side...
...designed a crescent-shaped keyboard that places the top and bottom keys within easier reach. In addition, she has converted the loud and soft pedals into bars extending the length of the curved keyboard. With feet freed from the center of the piano, she says, the pianist can then swing to either end of the keyboard without having to do a sitdown version of the twist...