Word: swingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than its share of disasters. At the same time, more than two-thirds of the Democrats voted for moderates and liberals, but those were split up among four rival candidates in the primary. Procaccino, the one Democratic law-and-order candidate, gained nomination with a bare 33%. A swing of a couple of percentage points the other way-or even the least modicum of unity among the liberals-would have changed the outcome...
...Irish election, there can be no conservative swing-conservatism is a way of life. After the rebellion that brought independence from Britain in 1922, the Irish settled down to a succession of governments content to recall the heroics of the past rather than innovate or modernize. Last week's election was no exception, despite a strong bid for power by the Labor Party, which fielded a slate of intellectuals, most notably Dr. Conor Cruise O'Brien. A onetime United Nations representative in the Congo, and most recently Albert Schweitzer Professor at New York University, O'Brien returned...
...past, he believes, stemmed from well-meaning managers who insisted that he pull the ball toward Shea Stadium's beckoning leftfield fences. Cleon dutifully followed their advice until the middle of the 1968 season, when he decided in a fit of frustration to return to his natural swing. He has been hitting better than .300 ever since. "I'm a line-drive hitter," he explains, "and I have to hit the ball where it's pitched. When you swing for the fences, you get out in front of the pitch, and that's what ruined...
...nature of his determined intent on the play from the outset. An improvisatory prologue serves as a metaphor for the work. In sweatshirts, football jerseys and dungarees, members of the cast drib ble a basketball, wrestle, somersault and shadowbox. Someone pumps back and forth on a child's swing. The seat of that swing will later serve as Harry of Monmouth's throne. The rising intensity of sticks beaten rapidly together, a rhythmic tapestry of violence, suggests a neighborhood gang rumble. One knows in one's slightly chilled bones that this war is not going...
...Association said its goal was to apply continuing pressure on the same sensitive areas the PACE report had pointed out. For the next 18 months, Calkins gave speeches and provided quotes for newspaper articles in an attempt to swing taxpaying-Cleveland's mind toward the Association's point of view...