Word: swingingly
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...change-up, throw a fair knuckleball, and move the ball around pretty good." Not everyone had such steely resolve. Denny Albano, 42, a Chicago commodities trader who was varsity catcher at Bradley University in Peoria, Ill., trained mostly on four vodkas a day. When he essayed his first indoor swing in 20 years, he shattered the kitchen chandelier...
...little different style," Burke says. "It's more of a pro-style." But he adds that it took only a few practices to get back in the swing of the college game...
Most of the meet's 16 events were sprints, which caused Hays some concern in the early going. "Our sprinting may not be as strong as B.U.'s and all the 50 and 100 yard events may swing the meet in their favor," Hays said...
Gromyko's four-day visit to West Germany marked yet another Soviet pitch to European public opinion. His timing was no accident: West German parliamentary elections will be held on March 6 (see box), and the arms-control issue may swing the outcome. The election results, in turn, could determine whether the American missile deployment proceeds on schedule, not only in West Germany but in the other NATO countries as well. Gromyko strove to be dovish in Bonn, though he did drop an occasional note of menace. "We cannot ignore the fact," he warned, "that the Federal Republic...
...president and chief tinkerer of a San Diego-based golf-equipment firm retired to his shop and emerged with the Basakwerd, a putter with a head that points toward the body. It demands a square stroke of the ball that literally forces the player to use a textbook swing. Or so the theory goes. Golfers, of course, will try anything short of pool cues or ball-peen hammers to improve their putting game. Arnold Palmer, 53, gave it a swing, and at the Los Angeles Open earlier this month Johnny Miller, 35, and three other pros were all Basakwerders...